Sentences with phrase «by cultural hybridity»

At the age of fourteen, Evans moved back to Lagos where she experienced a sense of displacement and begun to reflect upon her identity which was marked by cultural hybridity.

Not exact matches

From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.

Led by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Prospect.4 brings together 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's Tricentennial.

The list, put together by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, (of the Nasher Museum in Durham North Carolina), includes 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, and will address themes of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity.

All of these artists have succeeded by avoiding what cultural historian Ian Buruma calls the «trap of hybridity,» in which self - conscious efforts to merge different traditions produce little more than superficial decoration hiding ill - digested ideas.

By this time, of course, the transatlantic trade had already urged the transmission of black cultures around the western world, creating the instances of what would later be called «cultural hybridity,» occurring as a direct result of slavery and its legacies.

By altering popular sports objects, he explores concepts of sculptural, cultural and historical hybridity.

Drawing from the unparalleled collection donated to VMFA by preeminent Hasui collectors René and Carolyn Balcer, the exhibition exemplifies the creativity and cultural hybridity Hasui's work embodies.

Wolf writes that, «Thomas wants to build his own take on the subject by combining... images, riffing on this idea of racial, cultural, and socioeconomic hybridity...» [Note: I revisit hybridity as polyculturalism on the Art21 blog.]

Artists like Carlos Castro Arias, William Cordova and María Elvira Escallón bring symbols from the past into the present, collapsing temporalities to signal the cultural hybridity and diversity of Latin America's people, and a modern vernacular forged by shared co-existence.