Referencing symbols of power and control, theater and performance, history and biophysics, per Sway finds Davidson holding a distorted mirror to our bizarre and horrifying political climate, a world turned upside...
Not exact matches
Starting from an abstracted image
of a waterfall — paint which has been left to literally drip down across the painting's surface — Steir's paintings borrow from the vertical compositions
of Chinese landscape painting and
reference the metaphysical
power of the waterfall as a
symbol connecting heaven and earth.
A recurring motif in Motti's work is paper currency, which the artist uses as a
symbol for the ambiguous materials behind the
power structures
of Western civilization and in
reference to the European Union's press to eliminate the use
of paper cash in favor
of electronic money.
«Despite the best efforts
of our materialist society to rid the world
of anything that can't be quantified, measured and easily
referenced, the belief that signs,
symbols and images possess a special kind
of power is still pervasive.
In a mix
of references to both Ancient Greek and contemporary pop - culture, she tries to balance questions about ideals and gender, as well as our bodies being
symbols of power and potential carriers
of meaning.