Carmen Winant

Carmen Winant
Fall of the Modern Empire (test), 2021
Paper Size: 11x22 inches
Edition of 1
Unique print on newspaper produced and signed by the artist.

This work is one of a series of tests that I made while creating a serial work called The Fall of The Modern Empire. For it, I was experimenting with the very delicate process of printing on newsprint. Specifically, The New York Times. I was scouring the paper for stories that centered women's bodies and their degrading rights; I would then print images on top from a found book of childbirth. The process was experimental and full of technical problems that needed to be ironed out. The resulting pictures – I think of them as one picture merged together – are surprising in ways I couldn't have predicted.

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Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree, and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner.

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