Carmen Winant: My Birth Los Angeles Center for Contemporary Art

Center for Contemporary Art

Using American writer James Baldwin’s 1962 novel Another Country as its point of departure

Frantz Fanon to Judith Butler

2016Three colour silkscreen on Saunders Waterford high white 300gsm paper57 × 76cmEdition of 50 + 5APs

Carmen Winant: My Birth Los Angeles Center for Contemporary ArtSPBH, 2018, Softcover, 144 pages, 30 23 cm Combining text and image, My Birth, by Columbus, Ohiobased artist Carmen Winant (born 1983), interweaves photographs of the artist's mother giving birth to her three children with found images of other, anonymous, women undergoing the same experience. As the pictorial narrative progresses, from labor through delivery, the women's postures increasingly blend into one another, creating a collective body that