Sentences with phrase «abject bodies»

Yet where Kelley approached his abject bodies with the calculated distance of a Freudian with his test subjects, Pylypchuk enters the protocols of abjection from within.

Magali Reus is part of a group of young, London - based artists exploring sleek surfaces and abject bodies

After Caland, to move back through Jafa's gallery is almost painful, although the latter would no doubt insist that his photographs of scarified and abject bodies have every right to claim the same beauty as Caland's paintings and sculptures.

That Frankensteinian dialectic that pits idealized form against the material limits of the abject body is consistently complicated, in Ruby's work, by bodies that have become as changeable as our ideas about them.

An image also included here from Andres Serrano's morgue series (circa 1992), Rat Poison Suicide II, doesn't directly deal with AIDS, but rather allegorizes one of the era's pervasive subjects, mortality and its abject body of evidence.

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in relation to religion and morals — again — if anything has been shown to be the case — it is that religious bodies are incredibly immoral and malevolent... so much so — that it boggles the mind how anyone in the 21st century could possibly be blind to the abject harm religion does to humanity.

in relation to religion and morals — again — if anything has been shown to be the case — it is that religious bodies are so incredibly immoral and malevolent that it boggles the mind how anyone in the 21st century could possibly be blind to the abject harm they do and have done to humanity.

The storm of outrage among civil society organisations over the government's bill to stifle campaigning by voluntary bodies, pressure groups and charities for a year in advance of the next general election has eclipsed debate on the abject weakness of the same bill's proposals for a register of lobbyists.

The Parade as a body of work exists in a similar abject vein as her various other works, yet in this exhibition she focuses on the avian rituals of flocking, mating and pageantry.

The Los Angeles artist shifted styles, mediums and techniques frequently, creating an eclectic body of work that ranges from abject latex sculptures to copies of Old Master paintings.

Degas, on the contrary, emphasized the grotesque, even abject aspect of the naked body.

Melgaard's schizophrenic accumulations of vulgar ephemera might evoke the installations of Thomas Hirschhorn — that is, if Hirschhorn's papery images of war - ravaged, blown - apart bodies and Hellraiser - like mannequins were replaced by cum - dripping penises and self - fisting platypuses; that is, if Hirschhorn were in fact not a heterosexual Swiss man but a sexy, hairy, Australian - born Norwegian gay guy hell - bent, in the abject tradition of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, on figuratively shitting all over mainstream culture.

People like Kiki Smith and Robert Gober and others were dealing with the body, with the grotesque and abject, but she had been dealing with those subjects all along.

Beautiful, fragile and abject, these forms consider the human body alongside architecture and technology.

Using leftover paint from construction supply stores, McMillian responds to the absence of bodies in the history of landscape representation; his pours and splatters evoke what he describes as an «abject history of turmoil or the spillage of blood» that is often missing from the pastoral tradition.

Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject is summarised in the press release, acting as a foundation from which the works depart and expand on a contemporary experience of the vulnerable body.

In the undulation of data fluxes, Datumsoria as well implicates that the politics of the real no longer only lies in the sphere of actual bodies and social sites recognized in the form of the traumatic and abject subject as the predominant contemporary experience and object of artistic inquiry but also alludes to how grasping this new reality of bits and bytes is as ethically imperative as it is epistemologically fundamental.

By rendering one example of the un-deniability of the human body, Blood Shot is Blood Loved quietly implicates the dichotomy between purity of life, and abject realities of violence that suppress human volition, globally.

In images when the body does not appear, objects such as dead flowers, a mirror, two clocks, soiled underwear, or a string of lights serve as a series of memento mori, reminding the viewer of the abject frailty and transience of life lived during the plague years of the AIDS crisis.

Using bodies in their most abject and raw forms, the great painter orchestrated a highly personal, yet captivatingly universal visual aura with right doses of social commentary on religion, womanhood, and labor.

Refuting perceptions of the body as taboo, abject or vulnerable, Cárdenas's work uniquely positions itself as a site for positive sensation and connective potential.

Davis plays with interpretations of these artworks based on indexical traces of the body via artist's mark, sign and symbol, absence or void of a figure or form, and notions of the abject.

Jenny Saville, «Ancestors» Opening: 6 — 8 p.m., Gagosian, 522 West 21st Street What you should know: YBA painter Jenny Saville hasn't had a New York solo in some seven years, so your appetite should by now be whetted for her grotesque depictions of bodies under duress, pressed against the canvas as a pane of glass, or grotesquely overweight, all recalling her countryman Lucian Freud's hungry paintings of abject flesh.

Her favourite subjects include «cross-species romance, dogs with itchy butts, drunk people barfing, strange fish, cloud formations, car crashes with test dummies flying out of them, weird glitches from video games that force human bodies into unnatural contortions, hilarious porn scenes, baby pratfalls, animals with clothes on, dogs humping unsuspecting humans, people wanking, kangaroos wanking, bears wanking» — anything outrageous, raunchy or abject.

With a rare, refreshing distillation of formal acumen and social issues, McMillian engages with the layered concepts of landscape — the body's interior and public landscape; the landscape as a physical place and a repository of memories, myths, and obsessions; and the absence of bodies in the history of landscape representation, or what the artist describes as an «abject history of turmoil or the spillage of blood» that is often missing from the pastoral tradition.

-- Jeffu Warmouth, Three Heads are Better Than One — Humor and the Abject Presents: Mainstream Comedy Featuring Lorelei Ramirez, Amy Zimmer, and Ruby McCollister Hosted by Sean J Patrick Carney — Eugenia Pigassiou, Body of Work in Regress — Becca Kauffman — Jaimie Warren

Nowadays many creators have been seduced into the space of otherness and the abject, as a banner we can lift the embodiments of delusion of Goya in his Black Paintings and The Disasters of War, or visit the work of David Cronenberg in The Fly, Tod Browings with Freaks, the otherness worked by Lynch, Bacon's deformed faces, the sexual exaltation in Picasso and Kubin, Barney's beautiful Chimeras, the twisted bodies of John Currin, or the «Frankensteinian» exercises of Cindy Sherman, they like many other artists, have used this place as a sign of vulnerability of the predatory condition, of the primary lethal and self - destructive impulses of human beings.

And it looks at the ways in which materials obstruct, disrupt or interfere with social norms, surfacing as impure formations and messy, unstable substances.It re-examines the notion of «dematerialization»; addresses materialist critiques of artistic production; surveys relationships between matter and bodies, from the hierarchies of gender to the abject andphobic; explores the vitality of substances, and the concepts of intermateriality and transmateriality emerging in the hybrid zones of digital experimentation.

In contemporary popular culture, the mutating body of fable reappears in myriad guises, which run the gamut from the abject to the exalted.