Carmen Winant - The Fall of The Modern Empire

Known for her collages and her work focusing on the representation of women, Carmen Winant has printed photos of women giving birth onto pages of the New York Times. The images blend into one another, mingling with the articles and merging in a single shot. For each image, Winant seeks out interesting political and aesthetic harmonies with a page from the newspaper. These fusions cancel out hierarchies, leaving only the relationships between the images.
With this series, the artist tells a story about the way in which women represent themselves and each other. This work is accompanied by a selection of feminist books proposed by Carmen Winant which complements Photo Elysée's library.
The series "The Fall of The Modern Empire" is part of the exhibition "Open Books", on view at Photo Elysée from June 30 to October 1, 2023.
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