Carrie Mae Weems. ‘Lincoln, Lonnie and Me’

The Capella MACBA hosts Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me, a video installation that, staging life-size phantasmagorical figures, examines the formulation of historic narratives and how past tragedies are constantly renegotiated through Weems’ relationship with president Abraham Lincoln and activist Lonnie Graham. A proposal presented in parallel to the exhibition project organized by Fundación Mapfre in collaboration with Foto Colectania, Barcelona, and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, where over four decades of Weems’ photographic work will be on show.

With the presentation of this major installation, MACBA joins these leading institutions to revisit Weems’ seminal trajectory. An initiative that highlights how, through a practice that has persistently proved ahead of her time, she has succeeded in reflecting on a complex past while projecting her work into the future, conveying a tireless sense of hope.