Artist Talk: Carmen Winant

Join American artist Carmen Winant for an experimental new lecture exploring intergenerational feminist inheritance — both as a subject and as a strategy — within her work.

Carmen Winant's practice uses photographic tools to centre feminist struggle, discourse and movement building, aiming to visualise the people who carry out the political — and often every quotidian — labour of care and organising on the ground. 

In this experimental lecture, Winant will focus on intergenerational feminist inheritance as both subject and strategy across her projects. Drawing from her own practice and its varied points of reference, she asks: What happens to a movement as it passes between generations? How do priorities accumulate and shift? In what ways do past failures become visible in that process? And what might these inheritances teach us about the possibilities of our present struggles for liberation?

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Wednesday 19 November
18:30-19:45

The Photographers' Gallery
16-18 Ramillies St
London W1F 7LW
United Kingdom

About The Last Safe Abortion, Winant's latest book:

Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in which abortion was legal in the United States (1973–2022), The Last Safe Abortion recognises the care, advocacy, and community-building of abortion workers. Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal, organisational, and institutional archives from across the Midwest, in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Kentucky, North Dakota, and Ohio. The photographs themselves are surprisingly regular: women answer the phone, sterilize medical equipment, throw staff birthday parties, offer workshops, and schedule appointments.

In centring the tender, quotidian, and routine acts that inform this healthcare work, Winant works to counter the ways anti-choice activists have weaponised photography by proposing a visuality that attends to abortion care. The Last Safe Abortion presents a selection of this vast collection of photographs, accompanied by a text by Winant.

Can't make it to the event? Browse Carmen Winant's books here.