Not exact matches
Through the selected artists vary in approach, consistent
within all the works is their critical engagement,
emotional power and ability to create interweaving narratives that suggest multiple states and
histories.
Intertwining
history with reality, nations with cultures, collective memories with private memories, the rich imagery in his work could not survive in a vacuum - of abstract space, but is able to reconstruct and renew itself
within the
emotional and imaginative construct of private memories.
It is impossible for the viewer to enter this
emotional landscape without making their own identifications and associations, without being an implicated participant
within the unfolding of
history, its apparatuses and institutions as well as its human narratives.
Installed
within an intimate display designed by the Brussels - based architecture firm Lhoas Lhoas, the objects offer an alternative to the way we think about collecting, one which attaches high
emotional or sentimental value to objects and is defined by individual
histories and memories.
The physical and expressive sphere
within which Block operates, as fully in the round and representative of both objective
histories and more abstract
emotional memories, established Whiteread as one of the most innovative and timeless sculptors practicing today.
This pattern may also be associated with a
history of pre-divorce domestic violence qualities
within the family involving control, dominance, and verbal /
emotional abuse from the narcissistic / (borderline) / antisocial parent (husband) toward the other parent (wife).