Not exact matches
Complementing the exhibition are works with themes of mapping, globalism,
hybridity,
cultural identity, and the tension
between sacred and secular.
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.
From her In -
Between Worlds series, a group of images that explore, perform and confront issues of
cultural hybridity.
I'm really interested in
hybridity from a
cultural perspective, but I chose to focus on inter-species hybridization because I didn't want it to be merely about the fusion and mixture of culture, but also about the transparency of boundaries
between things we identify as whole in and of themselves.