Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects

The LSU Museum of Art’s annual collaborative exhibition with the LSU School of Art Visiting Artist in 2018 will feature internationally-known artist Carrie Mae Weems. The primary gallery will feature two recent series of photographic and video works, All the Boys and The Usual Suspects. These series question the stereotypes that associate black bodies with criminality. Further the images implicate these stereotypes in the deaths of black men and women at the hands of police and confront the viewer with the fact of judicial inaction. Selected works drawn from Weems’ From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Louisiana Project, and Slave Coast series will appear in LSU Museum of Art’s permanent collection exhibition, Art in Louisiana, to bring a new layer of meaning to the works included in the exhibition.

With this exhibition, LSU Museum of Art hopes to foster timely community dialogue providing a space for safe contemplation and conversation surrounding issues facing our local and national community. Programming collaborations with local organizers and LSU faculty will supplement the museum exhibition to question injustice, the biases we share, and how these contribute to deadly outcomes.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website