“Carrie Mae Weems’ installation And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People sets up a visual and textual polyphony in the space of the ten-by-twelve foot gallery, a fugue of dissident positions directed against oppression. Where Weems’ earlier work has dealt specifically with complexities of African-American experience and culture, this new work situates itself in a shared ground of suffering that cuts across racial boundaries: suffering associated with class. By way of evocative, iconic images appearing in a series of photographs, and contending voices materialized as text on banners that, suspended from the ceiling, reach toward the floor, the installation addresses itself to the question of collective action.”