Sentences with phrase «constructed images of our past»

Isolde Brielmaier, the exhibition's curator, says, They also look to the global political and social arena as they explore, re-work, and in the process, «rewind» the constructed images of our past and recent histories in order to re-cast them in a different light of the present.»

Not exact matches

Churches can use black theology to help people overcome oppressive images of the past and present — in some cases, paradoxically, white images that have been financed and constructed by blacks.

As he postulates his past experiences, Pescador looks to television sitcoms in which characters are forced to learn to how to take care of themselves in the «real world,» invoking the Hollywood fantasy of youth as played out in one's 20s and the fantasy image of the city of Los Angeles constructed through cinema.

According to Kessler, «My aim is to create a kind of visual journalism of the past four years, where underneath this abundance of stimuli, what takes place is an investigation into how the images that occupy our realities and dreams are constructed and manipulated.»

The artist's single - channel video works of the past ten years are more allusive and poetic, addressing political and theoretical concerns obliquely via densely constructed image - sound montages whose explicit subjects range from the relationship between Maria Callas and Pier Paolo Pasolini (Come Lontano, 2010) to the life of Charlotte Brontë (CB, 2011).

MPVAC investigates the emergence of digitally constructed identities, theoretical fictions, Amerika composts various art personas and classic 20th century artworks into a narrative sequence of mobile phone video images that conjure up both the spirits of the past as well as hauntological actors of the present.

The images enact the historical inertia of Edwards» belief system and raise fundamental questions about how we construct the past as a «different» place.