In 2015 Kagami presented an «intimate portrait session» performance as part of the Live section of Frieze London; the performance drew an audience of more than 2000 visitors over the course of four days and involved the artist
creating fictional portraits of each visitor's penis or breasts.
Not exact matches
As Tony Kuehn writes in his BookPage review, «This book is a living, breathing testament to Evison's singular talent for
creating portraits of people who may be
fictional, but nevertheless are so vital that one is certain their names must be in a historic register somewhere.»
From the gaze of a young Susan Atkins standing trial for the Tate - LaBianca murders, to the martyr - like pathos of an injured United States gymnast, the
portraits in White's new series
create an arresting tension between the
fictional and the recognizable.
Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential
portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the
fictional young black female artist «
created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.
Hershman Leeson
created a
fictional character named Roberta Breitmore between 1973 and 1978, who even had her own therapist; Mendieta photographed herself with male facial hair to challenge gender signifiers; Sherman's conceptual
portraits have seen her disguise herself as fictionalized characters; and Wearing has manipulated her self image with masks.
Wantee, which Prouvost was commissioned to
create for Schwitters in Britain, was a collection of works by her
fictional grandfather, while Yiadom - Boakye's Chisenhale Gallery exhibition Extracts and Verses featured
portraits of imagined sitters with invented backstories.
Inspired by science, landscapes,
portraits, and
fictional worlds, the artist wants to
create new interpretations of our environment.
For her first solo museum exhibition in New York, Ojih Odutola has
created a series of
fictional portraits depicting two well - to - do Nigerian families.
A few years ago, Kroeger shifted again from graphic design and public murals to canvas and contemporary art,
creating «
fictional portraits» composed of data fragments and machine parts, exploring what it means to be human in a digital world.
And we also see Ms. Sherman, already
creating the sort of
fictional self -
portraits, inspired by movies and girlie magazines, that would lead to her renowned «Untitled Film Stills.»
«
Fictional Portraits painted in a style verging on magic realism
create a haunting impression in Odutola's NYC museum debut.»
That is, they score higher on questions like, «It is important for me to write,
create, or build something that will exist after my death;» insecure people do not show this tendency.6 In the
fictional wizarding world, immortality is a bit more literal (ghosts and living
portraits of the deceased), whereas in our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existence.