"Cultural hybridity" refers to the blending and mixing of different cultures. It occurs when people from different backgrounds interact and share ideas, traditions, and customs, resulting in a new cultural identity that combines elements from multiple cultures. It represents diversity and the creation of unique cultural expressions, often resulting in a rich and varied society.
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Their interdisciplinary practices allude to the complexity
of cultural hybridity propelled by contemporary, digital diasporas.
From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and
cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.
At the age of fourteen, Evans moved back to Lagos where she experienced a sense of displacement and begun to reflect upon her identity which was marked
by cultural hybridity.
They also hear from students who experience
cultural hybridity on a daily basis, and they come to see that there can be a range of cultural influences within any one community.
Born in Nigeria, relocated to the UK; centered solely in drawing; large - scale drawings explore the malleability of space, politics of play, and
cultural hybridity as a new nation; awards include Fulbright Scholar Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2012 — 2013); participates in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions Program; Queens Museum artist - in - residence.
In this interview Cao Fei
discusses cultural hybridity and her Hip Hop series, and the factory workers featured in her multi-part project Whose Utopia.
Since that time, post-colonial thinking, globalization, and an awareness of our
own cultural hybridity have deepened ideas about African culture; the exoticizing and demeaning implications of Primitivism have made it untenable.
According to the artist, rice is a symbol
for cultural hybridity because it translates into the cuisine of most countries.
In an interview for Huffington Post she described her attitude
towards cultural hybridity: «Although cultures do have important political utility, the idea that cultures develop in vacuums is false.
Her large scaled drawings are part of an ongoing, non-linear narrative called aliens, hybrids and ghosts that explore space, play, and
reveal cultural hybridity.
By creating a historical opening between the past and the present, this exhibition presents artists working across the Middle East and South Asia to explore ideas about artistic and
cultural hybridity between different regions.
Drawing from the unparalleled collection donated to VMFA by preeminent Hasui collectors René and Carolyn Balcer, the exhibition exemplifies the creativity and
cultural hybridity Hasui's work embodies.
With each body of work, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of these women's lives, and questions the utopian possibilities
of cultural hybridity.
It will map out aesthetic and
cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the dispersal of peoples of Black African descent, and will also present key moments within the cultural politics of the Black Atlantic.
The triennial exhibition, spread across seventeen venues in New Orleans, will feature seventy - three artists from «North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement, and
cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's tricentennial,» according to an announcement from the event's organizers.
Shiokava is Japanese Brazilian and his work embodies
a cultural hybridity.
Examining the lives and work of artists past and present offers insights into issues of
cultural hybridity, race, social climate, and transnationalism.
Ore - Giron's work investigates the possibilities of
cultural hybridity and how sub-cultural phenomena morph and adapt as they move between languages, cultures, and political systems.
A series featuring a man in top hat and tails painted half - white and half - black is both a metaphor of perspective and a reference to
cultural hybridity.
Haji Omar has long used artwork to explore sociopolitical subjects such as
cultural hybridity and the transformation of language, and to visually address philosophical and physiological challenges of the human condition.
Schoonmaker titled his iteration of the New Orleans triennial «The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp,» and selected works that address the themes of identity, displacement and
cultural hybridity — a choice made before Trump became president but which now seems a pointed response.
Dutch wax textiles have been a signature of his work for many years, and represent
the cultural hybridity central to his practice and the rich complexity of post-colonial cultures.
[26] The garments she designs to be worn in her video works filmed in her installations are often fusions of her various influences, attesting to her views of
cultural hybridity.
Working across installation, sculpture, and photography, Accra - based German / Ghanaian artist Zohra Opoku often incorporates textile and design - based elements to explore the traditions of West Africa, as well as the politics of
her cultural hybridity.
The work also comments on
cultural hybridity, the bodybuilders» focused exertions becoming corporeal evidence of the construction of transnational masculinities.
The list, put together by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, (of the Nasher Museum in Durham North Carolina), includes 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, and will address themes of identity, displacement and
cultural hybridity.
Born in Brazil, Shiokava is ethnically Japanese, and his work embodies
a cultural hybridity played out in the distinction between his wood and macramé totems, which he says represent, respectively, the Japanese and Brazilian sides of himself.
These remarkable examples of
cultural hybridity and fused identity reflect the oeuvre that Zhang has built over his long career.
Her drawings and works on paper have been influenced greatly by
this cultural hybridity, as well as textile design, photography, print - making and architecture.
Having recently completed a Master's course at Christie's Education in Modern and Contemporary Art, her thesis focuses on themes of
cultural hybridity and displacement.
From her In - Between Worlds series, a group of images that explore, perform and confront issues of
cultural hybridity.
She is interested in exploring non-dominant histories,
cultural hybridity, and the deconstruction of power structures.
By this time, of course, the transatlantic trade had already urged the transmission of black cultures around the western world, creating the instances of what would later be called «
cultural hybridity,» occurring as a direct result of slavery and its legacies.
Like amanze, examining the revolutionary and utopian possibilities of
cultural hybridity, Saya Woolfalk uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.
Major topics addressed include «urban migration within the United States to globalization, to Négritude and
cultural hybridity, to the modern black artist's relationship with European aesthetic traditions and experimentation with new technologies and media.»
More than 500 works of art spanning four centuries illuminate changing aesthetics and ideologies and provoke meaningful conversations about topics ranging from commerce and
cultural hybridity to politics and pop culture.
Her practice, which comprises drawings, works on paper, textile design, photography and printmaking, attests to her understanding of
cultural hybridity, belonging and displacement.
Her practice, which comprises drawings, works on paper, textile design, photography, and printmaking, is a testament to her understanding of
cultural hybridity, belonging, and displacement.
Continuing his interest in
cultural hybridity, the subject of these biting images are refugees... Continue reading →
Artists like Carlos Castro Arias, William Cordova and María Elvira Escallón bring symbols from the past into the present, collapsing temporalities to signal
the cultural hybridity and diversity of Latin America's people, and a modern vernacular forged by shared co-existence.