Sentences with phrase «dense skein»

Look closely at Jananne Al - Ani's untitled 1996 photograph of a woman transformed by the process of being unveiled, or at Ghada Amer's Eight Women in Black and White (2004), with its dense skein of stitches masking pornographic images of women, or at Mona Hatoum's Prayer Mat (1995), made of sharply pointed pins that render the mat threatening.

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In Freischwimmer (2004), thin skeins of colour drift and curve, misting into dense clouds of pigment before unravelling and dissolving across the surface of the image.

Chains, hooks, locks and horseshoes are welded into dense knottings of steel, which hang from the wall in this gallery like malevolent sconces; skeins of barbed wire stretch from one wall to the next, and are (a little melodramatically) suspended from the ceiling to form a large tent.