Sentences with phrase «us cultural signifiers»

Could Bay actually be deliberately making a metaphor with the nefarious and false «contamination alerts» — the Orange Alerts of the city — as opposed to his usual accidental stumbling upon some negative and evil cultural signifier, of which is own work is usually the best example?

This would all be kind of interesting if it were about how certain cultural signifiers can lead to the absolute corruption of impressionable youth, but alas Die Antwoord are the heroes of the piece, uncomfortably fetishized by superfan Blomkamp.

Film screeners have become cultural signifiers — connoting access, insider status and power for those who receive them.

Yet The Shape of Water is no postmodern duck shoot of cultural signifiers.

Whether it's a T - shirt with «BOY» emblazoned across the front for Theron, or yet another tiresome pop - cultural signifier, his directorial hand is one blunt instrument.

Her parents fought the good fight to be treated with respect and equality and looked for any signs of backwardness they might need to root out of their daughters, who were alternately fascinated and repelled by the very cultural signifiers their parents feared.

In the featureless smooth faces, gender is only hinted at; the expression is told through body language while cultural signifiers are smoothed over as a way to universalize the figures.

In other words, the cultural signifiers constitute part of each painter's reality.

The works exude southern Spain's cultural signifiers, as well as its Islamic roots.

Her work embodies a notion of identity crisis, where origin and ownership of cultural signifiers becomes an unsettling and dubious terrain.

This insecurity about cultural signifiers filters through into much of our «abstract» painting as well, which feels compelled to reference the Australian landscape in order to deliver meaning.

Ryan freely adopts cultural signifiers, both high and low, and fractures them to the point where anything can exist on the same page, regardless of its origin.

Whereas her first exhibition «Cabin Fever» presented an array of archetypal Appalachian personages, in «NCITW» Morgan gives us a glimpse of their cultural signifiers and environment.

In its fourth iteration, Frieze New York is ageing — maturing, the preferred word — into a cultural signifier.

Unlike Pop Artists who use cultural signifiers to ironically comment on culture, Thiebaud's work is more concerned with the formal issues of paint.

His work focuses on both landscape image as cultural symbol and landscape painting as a cultural signifier.

Fascinated by jewelry as a cultural signifier, she is influenced by both historical jewels and material hierarchies that she believes are both imbued with meaning far beyond their mere physicality.

US cultural signifiers appear as a repertoire of branded commodities, like corporate logos.

For Wachs, these ocular riddles allow for the calculated manipulation of seemingly empty cultural signifiers.

While seemingly neutral because of their ubiquity, these items embody specific cultural signifiers, and reveal our patterns, preferences, and expectations as consumers.

The cultural signifiers of these places melt together when viewed through the Colorado - based artist's sunshine - hued lens.

He creates and repurposes images, films, structures, and objects that are full of established cultural signifiers yet totally empty of empirical meaning to endow these seemingly known forms with new possibilities.

In her two - dimensional paper construction paintings Christine Morla explores cultural signifiers through her use of Filipino packaging, giving new meaning to what had formerly been considered trash.

Through abstract painting, Swain can uncouple color from any cultural signifier and cognitive system and examine the pure affect of color on the human psyche.

From his depiction of hair to skin tone, Gardner's dramatically entangled bodies are intended to conjure universal connections --» cultural signifiers are smoothed over to de-individuate and universalize.»

Known for his near - hoarder style collecting habit, Feldman possesses a keen eye for arranging and reframing ordinary objects and imagery, conflating high - brow and low - brow cultural signifiers to test viewer's expectations.

Switching cultural signifiers, the final panel is inspired by French artist, Theodore Gericault's «Officer of the Hussars».

Best known for their performances, videos, and photographs that combine elements of S&M gay subculture with everyday domestic scenes, the artist team will further their ongoing exploration of power relations, as manifested in explicit cultural signifiers as well as clandestine -LSB-...]

In my sculpture, these cultural signifiers of wealth and good taste are infiltrated by images of cartoon violence, frenzied consumption, and clenched anxiety.

Instead of actually describing the action — packed video — which is chock - full of very contemporary cultural signifiers — I'm just going to give a partial list of things I noticed on the screen: a swagboard, a dress made out of CD - Rs, virtual pets, a substance that looks suspiciously like Nickelodeon's Gak, children involved in combination IRL and URL cosplay, prosthetic pustules, CGI geometric monsters, a cyberpunk-esque multiple - monitor computer setup (controlled by the girl in the aforementioned CD - R dress), and did I mention a swagboard?

While seemingly neutral because of their ubiquity, these items embody specific cultural signifiers, and reveal out patterns, preferences, and expectations as consumers.

The work is emblematic of Guan's overarching practice which assembles disparate objects and cultural signifiers, hinting at their significance but leaving it up to her audience to fill in the blanks.

Do you go the route of the GSK attorney above and just hope you pile up enough stereotypical cultural signifiers so that you can just conclude someone is gay?

Not exact matches

«Their popularity can be seen in the traditional sense as a mere brand extension,» Ong tells Entrepreneur, «but it is also a signifier of a larger cultural phenomenon: the rise of fan - based global subcultures.»

Despite the disclaiming of provoking racial signifiers and within musical and pop cultural references, it does not deserve a revocation of its artistic license and freedom.

Pryde's exhibitions — which often feature sculptural forms as well as photography — connect and flatten signifiers from political, pop cultural, and art historical discourses.

His paintings contain a mash - up of historical and cultural references, combining elements of 18th and 19th century colonial portraiture and folk art with visual signifiers of contemporary urban culture, including jewelry and body art associated with present - day gangsters and hipsters.

She has also often incorporated signifiers of collective expression and cultural celebration such as fiesta lightbulbs, bunting, garlands, and confetti.

On its own, a Polaroid image is fully identified with the artwork that ultimately grew out of it; the face depicted becomes a kind of signifier for larger cultural concepts of beauty, power, and worth.

Consisting of sixteen large - scale silver, black, and white flags encircling Collins Park, the flags further Pendleton's «Black Dada» project, a long - term exploration pairing two previously unrelated concepts: Dada, the early twentieth - century absurdist cultural movement, and the notion of «black» as an open - ended signifier.

Regional artists manuel arturo abreu and Christopher Paul Jordan explore the abstracted visual and emotional cues that influence how a sense of «place» is communicated through signifiers of the cultural, economic, and racial influences within inherited identity.

So while New Image Painting may not change much in the tastes of an art market that prefers its signifiers empty and flexible, the fact remains that the exhibition's authors — its curators and, presumably, its artists — are taking the problems of the market seriously as a cultural force.

She employs these signifiers as a means to celebrate cultural prowess and as a way to assign previously disenfranchised individuals, political agency and authority.

Rashaad's videos, performances, sculptures, and photographs interrogate notions of cultural / social signifiers as well as how they are formed.

The artists in this exhibition produce works that explore the multi-faceted characteristics of the word «hood» in some fashion: a slang term for a Black neighborhood; a suffix in cultural theory concepts like «objecthood,» «personhood,» «negrohood;» and Trayvon Martin's hoodie, which, along with his being an objectified young Black male, served as a signifier in an act of radical injustice.

Recognized since the 1970s as signifier of Black identity and activism, the hair accessory's importance as cultural icon is evidenced by its monumental scale.

In so doing, Rashaad challenges established ideas of cultural ownership, and illustrates an acutely contemporary understanding of the way socially specific signifiers convey meaning.

and has shifted from a palette of saturated hues to GOLD as her color (ed) signifier of cultural currency.

Drew Shaffer's work, like that of Wachs», uses a convergence of cultural and material signifiers to illicit unsuspecting elements of dry humor and critique.

Through re-contextualization, he endows adopted elements of cultural ephemera with a political charge, attempting to transform a battery of neutral art materials into signifiers of dissent.