Coming to us with a readymade patina of age due to their reliance on increasingly dated software, these works act as signals for the speed at which we cycle through and abandon
cultural detritus in pursuit of the new.
Not exact matches
Her current solo exhibition titled «Slice of Life» at Honor Fraser
in Los Angeles is full of examples of the artist's incredible ability to remix the
cultural detritus of her birthplace to find wisdom
in the mundane.
«Composed from the media,
detritus, and organic matter of Brooklyn, Tehran, and many places
in between, Dehghan's collages exhibit an impetus to dissect - physically, theoretically, and psychologically — a select collection of extant materials
in order to provide a channel through which the sociopolitical,
cultural, and mimetic forces that produced them may be projected outward through their own destruction, reconstruction, and reconfiguration.
But Sammak also has a knack for finding the uncanny
in the mundane and translating little bits of
cultural detritus to something fun to look at.
Controversial issues surrounding citizenship,
cultural consumption, discrimination, race, and poverty build the narratives that Ward articulates
in rubber, string, metal, and other
detritus.
Throughout his career, Adams has focused on particular
cultural phenomena of our age, including the strip - mall culture he observed
in Denver
in the 1970s and the spill of suburban
detritus in California
in the 1980s.