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The work is part of a series of five collages, all depicting hundreds of white hands and fingers engaged in the art of making, from modelling, sculpting and painting clay, to cutting, smoothing and folding paper. Composed of over 3000 found images hand cut from craft and pottery manuals made between the 1930’s and 1990’s, the series is a conceptual experience that seeks to visually translate the sense of touch.  The absence of women’s hand and the hands of people of colour speak to the history of representation, whilst her physical, laborious, repetitive act of collecting, cutting and pasting link her interest in hidden (often female) labour.  Through the act of deconstruction and reconstruction, Winant’s work addresses critical issues in society and image reproduction, and imagines an alternative, radical world.","physicalDescription":"Dozens of monochrome images of hands making things arranged in a collage.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Winant, Carmen","id":"AUTH403225"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"Carmen Winant is an Ohio based artist and writer, whose expansive art practice uses text and image to create collages, sculptures, artist books, billboards and wall installations which question image reproduction and the representation of women. Winant explores the aesthetic and political legacy of imagery, questioning their authorship, audience, and modes of circulation in shaping representation and ideology. Through the collection, aggregation, repetition and deconstruction of context, her work also questions the limitations of photography and of image production itself. Working almost exclusively with vernacular material and craft techniques, Winant highlights the growth of digital technology and its impact on image reproduction. A pioneer of ‘found’ photography, Winant derives most of her material from publications linked to second wave feminism: instructional manuals for childbirth, crafting handbooks, utopian pamphlets from faith collectives, and propaganda from the women’s liberation movement."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"","id":""}],"techniques":[{"text":"collage","id":"AAT138699"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Women artists","id":"THES387590"},{"text":"Collages","id":"THES49040"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"DOP","id":"THES291628"},"images":["2024NX3559","2024NX3568","2024NX3567","2024NX3566","2024NX3565","2024NX3564","2024NX3563","2024NX3562","2024NX3561","2024NX3560"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"101","id":"THES49933"},"free":"","case":"WW","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2021","earliest":"2021-01-01","latest":"2021-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Acquired as part of The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project","dimensions":[{"dimension":"","value":"","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"150","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"108","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photographic work by Carmen Winant, 'Hand Study (Making in Whiteness) V', found photographs, 2021","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"<i>American Photographs</i> (V&amp;A, June 2025 - May 2027)\n\nCarmen Winant (born 1983)\r\n<i><b>Hand Study (Making in Whiteness) V</b></i>\r\n2021\r\n\r\nMade from images cut out of 20th-century craft and pottery manuals, this work shows hundreds of hands engaged in making. Winant transforms touch into a visual experience, using repetition to highlight the dominance of whiteness in American visual culture. The painstaking process of collecting, cutting and pasting pictures speaks to her commitment to feminist perspectives and women’s work.\r\n\r\nFound photographs\r\nMuseum no. PH.995-2024\r\n\nAcquired as part of The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project","date":{"text":"2025","earliest":"2025-01-01","latest":"2025-12-31"}},{"text":"Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage by Fiona Rogers (V&A publishing, spring 2026)\r\n\r\nCarmen Winant is a pioneer of ‘found’ photography. Through the collection, repetition, deconstruction and reconstruction of photography and its context, Winant questions the limitations of the medium. This piece depicts hundreds of white hands and fingers engaged in the art of making, from modelling, sculpting and painting clay, to cutting, smoothing and folding paper. Composed of images hand-cut from craft and pottery manuals made between the 1930s and 1990s, the series is a conceptual experience that seeks to visually translate the sense of touch. The absence of women’s hands and the hands of people of colour speaks to the history of representation in art, while Winant’s physical, laborious, repetitive act of collecting, cutting and pasting evidences her interest in hidden (often female) labour. ","date":{"text":"27/11/2025","earliest":"2025-11-27","latest":"2025-11-27"}}],"partNumbers":["PH.995-2024"],"accessionNumberNum":"995","accessionNumberPrefix":"PH","accessionYear":2024,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-13","recordCreationDate":"2023-11-22","availableToBook":false}}