Sentences with phrase «cultural hybridity on»

Not exact matches

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.

Focused on identity formations, hybridity and green urban spaces, Bonilla emphasizes upcycling found materials like bottle caps to reveal cultural nuances.

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.

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.

One of the most thought - provoking catalogue narratives is Ligon's «Blue Black,» which discusses the challenges Ofili has faced (and continues to face) in attempting to transition from centralizing concerns about identity, «race,» and social exclusion toward more nuanced and entangled representations focused on cultural syncretism, creolization, and hybridity.

Wolf writes that, «Thomas wants to build his own take on the subject by combining... images, riffing on this idea of racial, cultural, and socioeconomic hybridity...» [Note: I revisit hybridity as polyculturalism on the Art21 blog.]

Her practice, which comprises drawings, works on paper, textile design, photography and printmaking, attests to her understanding of cultural hybridity, belonging and displacement.