This experimental lecture will center intergenerational feminist inheritance as a subject (and strategy) across Carmen Winant's projects.
What is a feminist picture?
A propos
Carmen Winant's practice draws on photographic tools to center feminist struggle, discourse, and movement building, aiming to visualize the human beings who do the political – and often, very quotidian – work of caring and organizing on the ground.
Drawing from both her own work and its varied points of reference, Winant will prompts: what happens to a movement as it shifts between generations, across time? How do our priorities mount and shift; in what ways are past failures made evident in that exercise? What might that ultimately teach us about the possibilities of our present, as it comes to liberation struggle? Following Winant's presentation, she will be joined by Gem Flechter for a brief conversation.
Carmen Winant, The Last Safe Abortion, 2024 — Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Jake Holler
Carmen Winant
Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University.
Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and transnational coalition building.
Gem Fletcher
Gem Fletcher is a writer, consultant and podcaster whose work explores photography, art and contemporary culture and how they shape and inform who we are and how we live.
Her work has been published in Foam, Aperture, Dazed, It’s Nice That, Creative Review, 1000 Words and The British Journal of Photography.
She also hosts The Messy Truth podcast, a series of candid conversations that unpack the future of visual culture and what it means to be a photographer today
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