Knit Club #9

Assembly Curated presents Magnum photographer Carolyn Drake’s “Knit Club,” the result of a several-years-long collaboration with a group of women Drake met while living in Water Valley, Mississippi. The nature of the club is ambiguous. It is a cross between a gang, a cult of mysteries, and a group of friends bound by secrets only they share. Drake shies away from literal descriptions, and leans toward the surreal and mysterious to present a different perspective on southern femininity and motherhood that feels subversive. The viewer is encouraged to question preconceptions of what it means to be a “woman.” Drake and her subjects collaboratively play with hiding and revealing the women’s face...View all