Sentences with phrase «creating fictional histories»

Ryan Gander's works often create fictional histories, and the print Ekow and Abacus Exploring the Dungeon (2008) is a photograph of a watercolour illustration by Mark Beesley - one that portrays the ICA's artistic director, Ekow Eshun, carrying an abacus and a torch in the basement of the organisation.

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We do not for a moment mean to suggest that Gen. 12 - 50 was created out of whole cloth as an allegorical, fictional, personalized «history» of Israel....

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

For the Controlling Factors project, students had the option of writing about real moral dilemmas from events in history or creating fictional examples based on the book The Hunger Games.

Throughout his career, Marshall has consistently sought to correct the under - representation of people of colour in Western culture by creating his own depictions of black figures (both historical and fictional) using the art - historical genres of history painting, portraiture and landscape.

The title of the exhibition refers to Powhida's recent solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Museum of Art where the artist created a fictional retrospective look back from the year 2050 at the Contemporary period of art history.

Other works such as Mnemosyne (2010), Peripeteia (2012) and Vertigo Sea (2015) borrow their premises from literature, mythology and art history, adopting fictional registers to create meditations on memory, diaspora and migration.

Matta's painting style shifts between figuration and abstraction, creating cosmic fictional spaces that reflect contemporary history.

Every December, we are offering a $ 1,000 scholarship to the student who can create the best resume, based on the life of any fictional or non-fictional character, from TV, history, literature or myth.

The reformulation of legal history to insert a fictional legal right to native title at the time of such Crown grants thus creates a legal relationship between the Indigenous right to land and the Crown grant at the time of the grant.