Not exact matches
The timeliness — even the urgency — of its central question is plain from the first chapter to the last: Can religion be plausibly explained without the assumption that «God» denotes a being of a higher ontological rank than the
mundane objects of our
daily experience?
Upstairs in GoMA, Lynch uses everyday
objects, such as backpacks, to draw focus to the
mundane and
daily rituals.
«Although the subject matter of the works explored in Lifelike is subtle and simple, once transformed by the hands of the featured artists, there is a real poignancy that we rarely recognize in the
mundane objects and situations of our
daily lives,» said Susan Taylor, NOMA Director.
Her eye was caught by the Saramacca's very traditional way of living, combined with the more
mundane objects which seemed to seep through
daily life.
The artist takes everyday
objects as starting points (it is worth noting that
objects and concepts in art history are also
mundane to the artist's
daily life), adopts news, music, cinema, language, vocabularies, definitions, products, images, artists and artworks, and re-incorporates these elements back into «life».
By taking
mundane objects and presenting them out of context and in such colossal proportions, Oldenburg forced viewers to reassess their
daily lives and values.