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Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present a survey of the work of Carrie Mae Weems examining her extraordinary
achievement over four decades. Focusing on history, identity, and the structure of power, WITNESS traces
Weems’s use of performance and her exploration of the inscription of authority in architecture and
photography. Weems’s inaugural show at the gallery highlights many of her most important bodies of work
and celebrates the gallery’s recently announced representation of the artist.

The exhibition begins with early documentary-style photographs from the series Family Pictures and Stories,
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