Sentences with word «abjection»

In fact there's a good deal of abjection in «Like Life,» as if the curators» aim was as much to shock, disconcert, and repel — gratuitously — as it was to illuminate a byway of sculptural history.

but sometimes in life, you're so overflown with abjections that you just escape somewhere in which you can not find a trace of yourself, your gender and your social group!

You might think the famous opening paragraph of Kristeva's 1980 book, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, would make an appropriate epigraph for the Emin show, especially if you substitute «art» when the word «literature» is mentioned.

«Yeah, yeah, art as object, art as spectacle, art as abjection, art as artifact, art as this culture or that culture, old media or new media, gendered or neutered, formal or political, pre-this or post-that, blah, blah, blah.

Gut Love raises philosophical and ecological questions around post-individualism, contemporary medicine, and abjection through an array of surprising vehicles — from human waste to David Bowie to an iPhone app.

Throughout her multiple works, she teeters between abjection and joy and problematizes the borders between proper and improper racial, gender, and queer subject.

The scrappiness of the pieces provides the context for abjection, but the real pathos comes from the relationships they depict.

All the same, the outward signs of this sinners abjection have real weight; they're not hollow like the moral man's overblown speech.

Charity: I, personally, am more sympathetic to M'Baku's rude» tude, and to the political abjection of the Jabari tribe, than I am to either T'Challa's isolationism or Killmonger's expansionist nationalism.

The same goes for Choi Min - suk's intensely physical lead performance, which careens from raving belligerence to groveling abjection.

I much prefer Angela de la Cruz's work, with its painful humour, honesty and knockabout abjection.

Through video, she examines painting and other visceral acts connected with associations of desire and abjection placed on female bodies in culture, and opposed to associations of power and virility placed on male bodies.

Wangechi Mutu's Shoe Shoe engineers social abjection.

For artists like these, delirium means abjection.

Nora Jane Slade's slightly derelict installation, «Spangled,» proved that formal invention and sensitivity are not incompatible with wistful abjection.

The tense ambiguity lingering in that expression provides an appropriate metaphor for Michaël's work, characterized as it is by subtle symmetries of stunning beauty and disturbing abjection, humor and despair, strength and fragility.

Two silk - screened posters — advertising pieces by Otto Muehl — and seven deliciously goofy kid - style images by Dieter Roth show Wool to be less of a painter and more of a designer of sassy graphics in which Midwestern cleverness rubs shoulders with Eurotrash abjection and both are passed off as urbane sophistication.

Comprised simply of a generic carpet encrusted with disposable gloves, hardened spray foam, and general art studio detritus, Center transcends straightforward abjection.

Pensato spikes her mix with the black - and - white starkness of Christopher Wool and the defiant abjection of Joan Jett's «I Hate Myself for Loving You.»

Previous works have looked to the contemporary media sphere and its relationship to the visceral body, the degenerative aspects of pervasive new technologies, to cultural forms of fanaticism and cults, to ideas of attraction and repulsion, body horror, the defamiliarisation of the human body and cartoon abjection.

Moreover, if the discourse of abjection once offered a counter to art theory's focus on media, language and the social construction of identity, Barry's spectacularized version of the corpus hangs ambiguously between the full richness of the body's organic associations and the technical apparatus that constructs, contains and renders this body visible.

Abu Ghraib and the US government's domestic abuses come to mind, as do all the numerous abjections endured by those reduced to bare life, cast out by the state as its projected Others.

Two shows eschewed feminine looking for female abjection.

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.

These are forms of abjection written on the body — rhetorical resistance to corporate messaging about achievement or winning.

These almost always feature his Turbosquid avatar, «Dave,» who enables him to delve into issues of language and abjection in digital media (Turbosquid is a website that sells stock 3 - D digital models).

For once, in an art world that worships the casual gestural sketch, these are predominantly complex, skilful and ideas - based drawings, weaving witty, disturbing or powerful fantasies about aesthetics as well as abjection.

Beautiful Beast, a group exhibition 16 acclaimed sculptors, explores the relationship between beauty and abjection through the lens of the grotesque with works by Barry X Ball, Monica Cook, Gehard Demetz, Lesley Dill, Richard Dupont, Eric Fischl, Judy Fox, Folkert de Jong, Elizabeth King, Mark Mennin, Evan Penny, Patricia Piccinini, Rona Pondick, Jeanne Silverthorne, Kiki Smith and Robert Taplin.

He questions social mores with art that skirts the line between abjection and attraction.

The mundane collides with the sublime, seduction combines with abjection, seriousness pushes against humor.

Inspired by Julia Kristeva's 1980 essay «Powers of the Horrors: An essay on Abjection», the show explores her notion of the abject and its «psychic origins and mechanisms of revulsion and disgust» emerging out of a confrontation with death, with violence, with vulnerability of decay.

Viewing F. T. Marinetti's 1909 «Futurist Manifesto» as a precursor to hip - hop artist the Notorious B.I.G.'s «Machine Gun Funk,» the phrase «Ruffneck Constructivists» evokes thuggishness as an expression of abjection.

A neighbor takes her to the hospital and she returns hours later with her wrists wrapped as dazzling white emblems of her abjection.

Masterful performances abound, though it's the brutalized women who come out on top in spite of their abjection.

And to close with a weekend full of choices, «Dark Crimes»... a Polish film with misogynistic scenes, explicit sex and an unforeseen level of abjection.

Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him.

Today, in the face of abjection and solitude, his heart said: «No».

Carland is interested in the history of female comics and through it provides a larger comment on gender roles including the fragmentation, abjection, and marginalization of the body and the legacy of feminism.

«Again, and more radically,» she continues with reference to Real violence, «the viewer is disgusted by the abjection and attracted by its formal, technically complex artificial quality.»

Is there more to Paul Thek and David Wojnarowicz than abjection?

Merging a sense of spirituality with political concerns, Smith's works of the 1980s and 1990s often addressed questions of mortality and abjection, as in cycles of work devoted to depictions of organs or employing bodily fluids, which took on a heightened significance in the midst of the AIDS crisis, which was ravaging the New York art world at the time.

Over the course of thirty years, Miller has produced a diverse body of work that, in addition to figuration, addresses language, valuation, social hierarchy and abjection.

Boadwee produces paintings, drawings and photos that explore his continued fascination with the body, actionism, expressionism, sex, humor, and abjection.

He is too deep in abjection.

Mana Contemporary's Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA) and Umm el — Fahem Gallery are pleased to present a private viewing of Textile — Territory — Text, a group exhibition that examines concepts of identity, belonging, abjection, and exile in contemporary textile art works by Middle Eastern artists, with a special one - night only performance.

Is there more to David Wojnarowicz and Paul Thek than abjection?

Harmony Korine is a best known for his visceral experimental films that toe the line between transcendence and abjection.