Sentences with phrase «cultural signifiers»

However, unlike the vast contemplative empty spaces of a Turell work, Free Roses is a transportive, neon - lit fantasy world loaded with cultural signifiers, reminiscent of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's descriptions of the Las Vegas strip.

Film screeners have become cultural signifiers — connoting access, insider status and power for those who receive them.

While seemingly neutral because of their ubiquity, these items embody specific cultural signifiers, and reveal our patterns, preferences, and expectations as consumers.

Continuing their ongoing exploration of relations of power, as manifested in explicit cultural signifiers as well as clandestine or unconscious practices, Lovett / Codagnone proposed an impossible object, a tapered conjoined whip of hand - crafter black leather with self - obsolescing handles — one on each end.

Her parents fought the good fight to be treated with respect and equality and looked for any signs of backwardness they might need to root out of their daughters, who were alternately fascinated and repelled by the very cultural signifiers their parents feared.

In the featureless smooth faces, gender is only hinted at; the expression is told through body language while cultural signifiers are smoothed over as a way to universalize the figures.

In her two - dimensional paper construction paintings Christine Morla explores cultural signifiers through her use of Filipino packaging, giving new meaning to what had formerly been considered trash.

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Could Bay actually be deliberately making a metaphor with the nefarious and false «contamination alerts» — the Orange Alerts of the city — as opposed to his usual accidental stumbling upon some negative and evil cultural signifier, of which is own work is usually the best example?

This would all be kind of interesting if it were about how certain cultural signifiers can lead to the absolute corruption of impressionable youth, but alas Die Antwoord are the heroes of the piece, uncomfortably fetishized by superfan Blomkamp.

The Origins of Sindoor With supreme and economical skill, Jhumpa Lahiri uses only a few cultural signifiers to situate her characters in space and time.

The uncritical use of words like «primitive» and «savage» to describe appropriated cultural signifiers on large media platforms serves to reinforce racist and colonialist ideas about indigenous people.

Though language and associated cultural signifiers ---- graphic, in both senses of the word ---- have long been central to Brannon's work, this exhibition puts linguistic syntax at the literal center of the equation, like genitalia.

This insecurity about cultural signifiers filters through into much of our «abstract» painting as well, which feels compelled to reference the Australian landscape in order to deliver meaning.

Ryan freely adopts cultural signifiers, both high and low, and fractures them to the point where anything can exist on the same page, regardless of its origin.

Unlike Pop Artists who use cultural signifiers to ironically comment on culture, Thiebaud's work is more concerned with the formal issues of paint.

They Don't Like It Up «Em will create a seductively legible image space for audiences, in which cultural signifiers clash and cohere to produce novel associative meanings.

US cultural signifiers appear as a repertoire of branded commodities, like corporate logos.

For Wachs, these ocular riddles allow for the calculated manipulation of seemingly empty cultural signifiers.

He creates and repurposes images, films, structures, and objects that are full of established cultural signifiers yet totally empty of empirical meaning to endow these seemingly known forms with new possibilities.

Others begin to reveal Zhang's ability to combine materials and cultural signifiers for subversive effects, like Soy Sauce Calligraphy (1995), a remake of a sweatshop «help wanted» ad — something quite common to New York's Chinatown in the 1980s — in the style of traditional Chinese calligraphy.

Known for his near - hoarder style collecting habit, Feldman possesses a keen eye for arranging and reframing ordinary objects and imagery, conflating high - brow and low - brow cultural signifiers to test viewer's expectations.

As a first generation Filipino - American, Palileo explores how outward appearances such as house décor, cars, bric a brac, and brand name ownership can represent assimilation into American culture while Filipino cultural signifiers such as language, food, and moral values remain unseen.

Probing his personal and familial histories in an attempt to carve out a cultural identity for himself, Vietnamese - born Lê mixes cultural signifiers with abstraction and popular culture to create new work that can be seen as either pure abstraction, identity - based art or both.

Martinez's compositions are expertly balanced between the frivolity of throwaway cultural signifiers and the psychological meaning behind symbolic form.

Do you go the route of the GSK attorney above and just hope you pile up enough stereotypical cultural signifiers so that you can just conclude someone is gay?

While seemingly neutral because of their ubiquity, these items embody specific cultural signifiers, and reveal out patterns, preferences, and expectations as consumers.

Best known for their performances, videos, and photographs that combine elements of S&M gay subculture with everyday domestic scenes, the artist team will further their ongoing exploration of power relations, as manifested in explicit cultural signifiers as well as clandestine -LSB-...]

This guy is so deeply wrapped up in socio - cultural signifiers that he's basically wearing them as a poncho.

Immaculate Heart, the Sacramento prep school where Lady Bird McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) wanders and rebels, is bedecked with fashion trends, «We Remember 9/11» signage and cultural signifiers that feel ripped from 2002.

Yet The Shape of Water is no postmodern duck shoot of cultural signifiers.

Whether it's a T - shirt with «BOY» emblazoned across the front for Theron, or yet another tiresome pop - cultural signifier, his directorial hand is one blunt instrument.

An eLearning module that takes into account the cultural signifiers of language usage will automatically create more grassroots trust in the target market.

Haftner uses a famous work lost to twentieth century landfills, a responsive pattern that is a cultural signifier of both the modern and the perpetual, and her own two - line «Compound Machine» poetry to engage the complexity and contradiction of our current ecologic-less condition.

The works exude southern Spain's cultural signifiers, as well as its Islamic roots.

Her work embodies a notion of identity crisis, where origin and ownership of cultural signifiers becomes an unsettling and dubious terrain.

Whereas her first exhibition «Cabin Fever» presented an array of archetypal Appalachian personages, in «NCITW» Morgan gives us a glimpse of their cultural signifiers and environment.

In its fourth iteration, Frieze New York is ageing — maturing, the preferred word — into a cultural signifier.

His work focuses on both landscape image as cultural symbol and landscape painting as a cultural signifier.

Fascinated by jewelry as a cultural signifier, she is influenced by both historical jewels and material hierarchies that she believes are both imbued with meaning far beyond their mere physicality.

In their works - that range from painting to a pop - up parlor show - these ideas and forms take shape through the exposure of their artistic processes, the instigation of boundaries, by the retelling and reimagining of histories, and by engaging social innuendos and cultural signifiers.

«Gestural language is often viewed as a cultural signifier, and I am interested in how it is formed, how it evolves as well as how it is appropriated across regional and class boundaries.

The cultural signifiers of these places melt together when viewed through the Colorado - based artist's sunshine - hued lens.

Glitter also has the added advantage of functioning as a cultural signifier of low tech ornamentation, nostalgia, and kitsch — in keeping with Kissick's use of faded supergraphics and over-crafted decorative gestures, and in direct tension with a variety of expressionist tropes that attempt to purposefully complicate any easy reading of the work.

Through abstract painting, Swain can uncouple color from any cultural signifier and cognitive system and examine the pure affect of color on the human psyche.

From his depiction of hair to skin tone, Gardner's dramatically entangled bodies are intended to conjure universal connections --» cultural signifiers are smoothed over to de-individuate and universalize.»

Her MA thesis focuses on the emancipation of «Chineseness» and cultural signifiers in contemporary Chinese ink painting from 2000 - 2015, with emphasis on two Vancouver - based exhibitions, «Jiangnan» (1998) and «Unscrolled» (2014).