M. Carmen Lane: (í:se) Be Our Guest/Stolen
On view through June 12, 2022
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Brattleboro, Vermont
www.Brattleboromuseum.org
Dislocations disrupt family ties and rootedness to place. Familial histories become opaque and obscured. However, these ruptures can never completely sever our connections to place or family. We find clues and connections to lost histories—in family lore, archival documents, dreams, and in other subtle ways that bring meaning to the echoing of history and speak to its reverberating presence today.
In much of their work, M. Carmen Lane draws from their experience as a two:spirit African American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Tuscarora) to connect family events and history to broader narratives around intergenerational trauma and loss that are at the core of the “American experience.”
[Image: Carmen Lane, Silkscreen from “(í:se) Be Our Guest/Stolen”]
