Suh, who lives and works in London, New York and Seoul, has continued to express feelings of
cultural displacement through sculptures and immersive installations of domestic architecture and household items.
Not exact matches
In the accompanying lesson (see link above), students explore the themes of
cultural displacement, human rights, and resilience
through classroom discussions.
Guirguis seeks to address problems of
displacement, environmental destruction, and
cultural and historical memory loss
through conversations with local artists engaged in political activism, and
through workshops with local Santa Monica youth and adult participants.
Guirguis seeks to address problems of
displacement, environmental destruction, and
cultural and historical memory loss in her work, as well as
through conversations with local artists engaged in political activism, and workshops with local Santa Monica youth and adult participants.
Her current research focuses on a redefinition of contemporary art history
through postcolonial theories and the genealogy of
cultural displacement; she also works on feminist art and theory of the 1970s.
Earlier audio - visual installations range from Baltimore (2003), which, in part
through the stylisations of black action movies from the 1970s, looks at the histories, divisions and intersections of black and white cultures,
through to his trilogy comprising True North (2004), Fantôme Afrique (2005) and Western Union: Small Boats (2007), all of which deal with themes of voyaging and
cultural displacement on both a local and global scale.
The works show my attempt to present the adaptive aspect of
cultural identity symbolized by international airplanes, as it is altered and expanded
through cultural displacement in a global nomadic culture.
Through a succession of photographic series and more recently video works, Meera has questioned and interrogated
cultural, physical, geographical, and emotional ideas of
displacement and suspension.