Sentences with phrase «cultural identity while»

In this semi-documentary film, patterned after Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations (1940 — 41), Ruiz explores what it means to live in exile, chronicling the conversations of Chileans in Paris, who resolutely hang onto their cultural identity while navigating life in another country.

The works of art in the exhibition raise questions about photography's ability to represent cultural identity while examining the breadth and challenges posed by the multiplicity of the American Jewish experience.

The weaving techniques she learned from her father are transformed through her use of these unconventional materials and geometric patterns, building upon her own cultural identity while commenting on the idea as a whole.

Alfredo Jaar, Inigo Manglano - Ovalle (both Season 4), and Gabriel Orozco (Season 2) have contributed work to this exhibition which explores the boundaries of cultural identity while celebrating universal themes.

His latest movie, Black Panther, beautifully blends those sensibilities into one of Marvel Studios» most exciting projects to date: a superhero film that embraces its cultural identity while still providing all of the action, humor, and dazzling visuals fans have come to expect from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Not exact matches

While the principal function of the immigrant churches was to preserve the ethnic and cultural identity of the immigrants, the main purpose of the mission churches, resulting from agreements negotiated by and with churches in the United States, was not to serve communities of U.S. citizens in the region, but to plant churches among the local inhabitants.

That is, will the faith - communities while keeping their separate identities be prepared in the present historical situation of pluralism, to interact with each other bringing their respective religious and / or ideological insights on the conception of the human so as to build something of a consensus of cultural and moral values on which to build a single larger secular community?

While a strong Scottish identity has certainly helped maintain a global community which identifies with Scotland — and helped Scotland pack an impressive cultural punch around the world — it is just one of many factors that may affect its immigration or emigration flows.

The President who stated this while addressing the people of Ebonyi State and leaders of the South East including traditional rulers at PA Ngele Oruta Township Stadium, Abakaliki, said all ethnic nationalities in the country must work together without compromising their cultural identities.

It's a superhero story that wrestles with tradition while also paying steady homage to it, and pushes back against so many films which reduce cultural identities to side traits.

The main cultural strand of development works to encourage a sense of national identity in young people, while at the same time encouraging them to be part of a diverse and multi-cultural society.

A culturally relevant curriculum must provide a way for students to maintain their cultural identity, while succeeding academically.

Chapter Two, Mom's Sex Book, dissects the challenges of writing about sex while raising kids, and Chapter Three, Shifting Identity, examines our changing cultural landscape around the LGBTQ community.

Jackson centers her tale around four women in the same family from four different generations and acutely sifts through the emotional landscapes of coming - of - age, claiming a cultural identity, grief and mental illness while including plenty of moments of brash humor and poetic insight.

Jackson centers her tale around four women in the same family, but from four different generations, and acutely sifts through the emotional landscapes of coming - of - age, claiming a cultural identity, grief and mental illness while including plenty of moments of brash humor and poetic insight.

Marriage to an Englishman who manages the local mine calms Victoria's identity - crisis for a while, but as the years go by and her children grow and start establishing their own identities, she and they find themselves straddled dangerously across the cultural divide.

«We look forward to capitalizing on the global reach that Best Western's network provides, while maintaining our unique personal identity and showing visitors just how cultural and original the city of Detroit can be.

Blending the old with the new, Oman has preserved its unique cultural identity, giving visitors the opportunity to immerse in an authentic taste of the past, while indulging in the luxury of world - class resorts, facilities and infrastructure.

Johnson explores the physicality of his materials to investigate the construction of identity, both visually and conceptually, in a practice that is steeped in individual experience while invoking shared cultural references.

Johnson investigates the construction of identity in a practice that is steeped in individual experience while invoking shared cultural references.

Meaning «Hail the Dark Lioness» in Zulu, she confronts racism by photographing herself while on the road, highlighting various aspects of her identity which speak to her skin color, ethnicity and the cultural perceptions and stereotypes of femininity and African culture.

Portraying a pair of gigantic figures with their heads lowered and with one arm around each other in a gentle embrace, the sculpture alludes to familiar childhood toys and cartoon characters while at the same time transforming their identities with a radical shift in scale, presenting them as monumental cultural presences...

This obscuring of subjects to a point of abstraction, allowing faces to melt off the subjects like those of Francis Bacon's portraits, elevates while disguising the identity of the mundane, drawing on our cultural over saturation and disconnection from the physicality of violence.

Throughout his career, Erizku has created a unique visual language and distinctive iconography that address issues of race, identity, politics and cultural history, while drawing from myriad references ranging from urban culture to advertising to the art historical canon.

While it might be argued that the more innovative and influential cultural identity of dear old Madchester was created in downtown counter-cultural haunts such as the sadly defunct Haçienda, this display focuses on what the mums and dads were watching on the box back home: Coronation Street, The Comedians and Top Of The Pops.

The gallery's program is rooted in the belief that artistic and curatorial practice plays a vital role in catalyzing cultural dialogue, while shaping our understanding of individual identity and social contexts.

Trenton Doyle Hancock has been weaving a complex fabric that laces elaborate fantasy into personal and familial folklore, while examining his own cultural and philosophical identity.

While Georgia Lucas - Goingʼs videos, installations and performances confront how identity and ethics are shaped by socio - economic and cultural disparities.

She uses them to speak meaningfully about cultural heritage, gender, beauty standards, race, and identity while transforming hair accoutrements into sculptural objects.

Her distinct aesthetic empowers her viewers to deconstruct limitations and think beyond while embracing their cultural identities.

Razmi's body of work focuses on issues of identity and gender while appropriating national, cultural and artistic references to reposition pop - culture within a contemporary Iranian context, giving her re-embodied, re-contextualized works a tongue - in - cheek quality.

Martinez uses painting, sculpture, neon and installation to comment on issues affecting communities nationally, while responding to specificities associated with the City of Los Angeles, including its overlapping and intersectional modern hybrid cultural identities.

Stimulating an artistic discourse is important to Pearl Lam Galleries, and while Yinka's new body of work draws on surrealism, his work continues to comment on cultural identity, colonialism, and post-colonialism, themes very much relevant to a Singaporean audience.»

The sculpture alludes to familiar childhood toys and cartoon characters while at the same time transforming their identities with a radical shift in scale, presenting them as monumental cultural presences.

In addition to Internet art in the Aughts that simulated a series of imagined art installations, Ichikawa has created has a series of blogs on Facebook around food organized by color, touching upon issues of cultural identity, food sourcing, gentrification, environmental concerns, and greenwashing while sharing nutrition and cost - cutting tips: I ♥ Yellow Food, I ♥ Orange Food, I ♥ Red Food, I ♥ Green Food, and I ♥ Blue Food.

He questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions and he asks what constitutes our collective contemporary identity today while condemning the excess of destruction due to the humans excess violence against the Earth.

From her first exhibitions in the early 1990s, Belmore's work set the stage for a new generation of artists whose work reflects their aboriginal identities while challenging and transcending cultural stereotypes.

While some black artists desire to be referred to simply as «artists» without a qualifying racial identifier, others make their racial identity and the black experience the center of their practice, challenging the established cultural stereotypes and generalizations.

Weems and Holzer use text to interrogate power through self - expression, creating new narratives for cultural and political resistance, while Katchadourian voices the frustrations of everyday life while inserting her artistic identity into the male - dominated history of portraiture.

Continuing a narrative on the role of the nation, the resulting work compels its viewers to acknowledge a conflicted past while speaking to a broader discussion of racial and cultural identity.

Created to preserve LGBTQ identity and build community, the Leslie - Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art provides a training ground for queer artists and cultural workers to examine the juxtaposition between art and social justice in ways that provoke dialogue and thought, while acting as a cultural hub for LGBTQ individuals and communities.

Her vixen costume imbues each situation with sensuality, while her Mexican American identity inflects the work with a critique of cultural assumptions and stereotypes about Latina women.

They write, «While Moshiri addresses contemporary Iran's traditions and historic isolationism, he simultaneously acknowledges the powerful appeal and influence of Western culture in his homeland... Moshiri's work takes a complex look at how we define our own cultural identity.»

While you move freely through different periods of art history or take refuge in the work you admire, her exploration of cultural identity seems to be inseparable from her own investment in and love for pop culture, especially Pop Art.

In a constantly evolving body of work, Kjartansson plays with notions of myth, cultural history, and identity, often through the lens of music and durational performance, all the while playing sincerity against the inherent artifice of performance.

While Kahraman's work is intertwined with the histories of the Iran - Iraq and Gulf Wars, it is also invested in the idea of feminine collectivity, identity, belonging, and diasporic cultural memory.

Sometimes confrontational or sexually provocative, Emin's art resonates with the «personal is political» legacy of feminist art, while simultaneously speaking to relationships in general, as well as exploring spirituality, cultural identity, class and celebrity.

Working together, Patrich and Sanchez brought this motive back to Vancouver in the hopes of maintaining their cultural identity, while addressing issues of gender, race and class for «third - world» people.

Bearden's collage paintings recall memories of Old Harlem and life in the American South, while Fors's photo - based works are visual records of his family history and cultural identity.

Marilyn Minter's pink - and - blue gender - coded paintings comment on the either / or status of sexual identity, while Alison Saar's vibrant figures treat identity as a fluid cultural hybrid.