“I use my body as a stand-in, but I never think of it as being about me," she has said. The character is portrayed by Weems herself, though she isn't necessarily a self-portrait. Originally completed in 1990 and consisting of 20 photos and 14 text panels, Weems's The Kitchen Table Series tells the story of one woman's life as it unfolds around a kitchen table. The woman's fears, shortcomings, desires, and loves were centered in a way that felt powerful. She was the protagonist and antagonist, the love interest, the narrator, the head of the table-she was in control of how the viewers saw her. In all of the different scenes of love, exhaustion, boredom, playfulness-oriented around the titular kitchen table-the woman occupied a space I had very rarely seen in art at that point. Courtesy of Jack Shainman GalleryWhen I first saw photos from Carrie Mae Weems's The Kitchen Table Series as a college student, I remember being entranced by the Black woman who inhabited nearly every frame. "Untitled (Woman standing alone)" is part of artist Carrie Mae Weems's The Kitchen Table Series.
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