Carrie Mae Weems The In-Between, 1993 - 2022 100 book titles that reference every book written or edited by Okwui Enwezor, 10 interconnecting titles constructed by Weems, paper, glue and ink
Two digital archival prints
Archival pigment prints
Digital archival prints 100 Books (each): 35.6 x 27.9 x 3.2 cm
The multimedia installation ‘The In-Between’ (2022–2023) pays homage to the life and work of the late Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019). Enwezor was a Nigerian curator, critic, poet, and educator. He was known for his rigorous and influential curatorial practice, which challenged institutions to be more inclusive of non-Western artists and histories. He was the first non-European curator of documenta in 2002 and the first African-born curator of the Venice Biennale in 2015. Before his passing, he was director of Haus der Kunst in Munich. Weems titled the installation ‘The In-Between’, underscoring Enwezor's commitment to addressing the gaps in the art world as well as the widespread grief around his premature death. The ‘in between’ is a space of neither here nor there, between leaving and arriving, a point of departure with a destination imagined but unknown. It was in these lacunae that Enwezor sought to make cultural institutions and art canonical histories more inclusive and representative of non-western identities. Weems presents her own version of Enwezor's extensive collected works, comprising one hundred books he wrote or edited and representing the magnitude of his contributions to curatorial and scholarly praxis.
