In this way, these five artists
bring cultural memory to contemporary thought and relate the disappearance of animals depicted in cave drawings to the possible extinction of present agricultural, botanical and animal life.
Not exact matches
Her work
brings education into conversation with childhood studies and
cultural memory.
Upholding the visual poetics and conceptual impulses of her earlier series these works
bring together many
cultural references amongst them; Japanese Ama divers, Ethiopian natives from the Ono Valley, childhood reminiscences of the soft frail architecture of sand castles and sensual
memories of eating quince fruit - a soul food in Adriana's native Brazil.
By
bringing together various scholars and
cultural producers to discuss their own research and practices, the panel will address the interplay between visuality and aurality in articulating spaces of architecture,
memory, and history.
Harvest showcases two precisely choreographed environments which at first may appear visually and conceptually diverse, but through Elmgreen & Dragset's own refined systems of logic, they
bring to life a multi-layered set of narratives that play upon childhood
memories, and question issues linked to our
cultural heritage and the institutional through a personally charged perception.
Now for his solo show at OUTLET, Berman
brings us splices of artistic
cultural influence from Japanese Ukiyo - e prints to Aztec myths, with an interplay between fact,
memory and fiction, reflecting upon his own history of displacement and relocation.
Bringing a poetic yet critical sensibility to the international stage, her work revolves around subjects such as the global economy, commerce and transportation often based on the classic gesture of the ready - made that is uncovering how collective
memory and sociopolitical imperatives can define
cultural production.»
Opening the pictorial space as an inclusive realm, Anderson invites the viewer to
bring their own
cultural experiences and
memories to the canvas, thus creating a visual tension where viewer and artist are connected in their contextualisation of the imagery presented to us.
It was not just a tool, but tremendously important because it was a way of
bringing back home into the new place through Caribbean music... it was a subversive machine because it was carrying a different message: a message about the past, about
memory, about home, about a new generation, about making a life in this rather inhospitable
cultural climate.»