Sentences with phrase «abject material»

Buggenhout works with what he describes as abject material: everyday objects detached from their original context and then reused.

These are aspects that are visible in her exploration of well - established photographic genres such as film stills, fashion photography or classic portraits, as well as in series where she explores a more abject material related to themes like fairytales, catastrophes, pornography, war and surrealism.

By using quotidian, often abject materials, Arte Povera artists aimed to break down the barrier between fine art and the rest of life.

He often favors abject materials — found bits of detritus, such as wood, metal, plastic, or cloth in seemingly ad hoc compositions.

The legacy of conceptual art practices permeates the exhibition, revealing layers of narrative in both the finished work and through the process of making, in some works abject materials such as car parts, wax, expanding foam and plywood, as well as methods of production such as crochet and embroidery are used to question the value of labour and social hierarchies.

Not exact matches

This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity of democratic capitalism to lift large masses of people from abject poverty to decent levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.

The gallery materials state that «Working against convention, these artists are putting into practice an «abject expressionism» in respect to materials, composition, color and form, sharing a rogue sense of what constitutes beauty.

Tristin Lowe is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice delves into the crude and rude, absurd and abject, pushing low - brow, low - tech methods and materials toward unexpected ends.

Craft, technique, and awareness of the history of materials are very much in evidence in Simone Leigh's work, which takes up subjects cast as inherently abject by the cultural mainstream for the fact of their unapologetic Blackness, but appeals on a technical and material level to curators and audiences who might otherwise marginalize the work and its message.

This living material draws the abject into an otherwise fastidious space, and the resulting encrustation on the wall is at once entropic and uncanny.

Launched in Turin in the mid-1960s, the Arte Povera group became well known for ad hoc installations and sculptures employing unorthodox, abject or found materials.

Tristin Lowe is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice delves into the crude and rude, absurd and abject - pushing low - brow, low - tech methods and materials toward unexpected ends.

Ilana Harris - Babou uses music videos, cooking shows, and home improvement television as material in an abject exploration of the American Dream.

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.

Using found and recycled objects, abject and non-traditional materials, and with a unique approach to representation, he addressed the social issues of displacement, alienation and marginalization.

Working across styles and mediums, but with a concentration on sculpture, Renaud Jerez (b. 1982, Narbonne, France) uses craft and industrial materials to create haunting, humorous, and abject sculptures that imagine the future through monsters and ruins.

However, most of this work springs from an expressionistically freeform compositional approach which, in the case of Martin, was unabashedly influenced by the vernacular forms of black Southern artists like Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley, who had little choice but to employ the most abject of materials.

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.

About the installation, Buggenhout says, «Materials I work with are very abject.

The abject as described by Georges Bataille is a material that is withdrawn from its original state and has lost its form and meaning because of it... And this uncertainness completely wipes away the symbolic approach of the work and the material... I believe that all these different aspects and layers in the work are openings for different interpretations but I never give a clue.

The idea of the abject black man to have the emotional and material capacity to feel sorry for a white woman is unimaginable in the town of Maycomb.