In fact there's a good deal of abjection in «Like Life,» as if the curators» aim was as much to shock, disconcert, and repel — gratuitously — as it was to illuminate a byway of sculptural history. (newcriterion.com)
but sometimes in life, you're so overflown with abjections that you just escape somewhere in which you can not find a trace of yourself, your gender and your social group! (rottentomatoes.com)
You might think the famous opening paragraph of Kristeva's 1980 book, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, would make an appropriate epigraph for the Emin show, especially if you substitute «art» when the word «literature» is mentioned. (artreview.com)