Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter

In the Museums series, Carrie Mae Weems stands in a black dress with her back to the camera, facing the Louvre and other museums, printed wall-sized. Reviewing the show, Sholem Krishtalka wrote that she becomes "a void in the picture plane."

There are more than 100 photographs and videos from four decades. Family Pictures and Stories pairs family snapshots with her own texts. In the Kitchen Table Series (1990) you sit at the missing fourth side of an oblong table while Weems plays lover and mother, and the text panels drift from a love story into soul and blues lyrics. Preach (2024) turns to Black churches, and Leave Now! uses Pepper's ghost, a 19th-century stage illusion, to tell her grandfather's story as an Arkansas tenant farmer.

Krishtalka called the work "profound, absorbing and beautiful"; his complaint was the docent tour. The audioguide has Weems herself talking you through selected works. Tickets are €15, free up to 18, and free for everyone on Monday 2 November.