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Continuing the artist's engagement with complex social and political issues, this exhibition also explores Rhode's notions of permanence and ephemerality as seen through his unique marks and gestures.

Not exact matches

The most influential work on the sublime stresses its ephemerality, describing it as a response to terror.

In the New Directions collection, Whitney Monaghan considers queer mash - up videos as sites reflecting the desire of fans to hold onto fleeing moments of screen queerness, positioning them as an archive of queer ephemerality.

Joan Didion has written, and better than no one else, about Miami as a transient metropolis, one that's been built in the image of so many Cuban cities, and one that seems like it will, if not exactly crumble, reveal its essential ephemerality when so many of its Cuban - born citizens feel like they finally have the license to return to their homeland.

And with the need for more velocity comes the need for more ephemerality: Each appearance by the celebrity on the smartphone screen must manage to be both instantly attention - grabbing and instantly forgettable, so as not to overtax the brain of the viewer while at the same time building up the «mental availability» that is crucial to selling brands, especially in highly fragmented, mass - market product categories like fragrances, mobile apps, and clothing where the Kardashians do especially well.

«By collecting it, or selling at high prices, as you do, these things that no longer have much use, does not that run counter to their very ephemerality — taking something intended to be transitory and short term and preserving it for eternity?

Work by local artists will be in conversation with pieces that will be traveling from as far as Alaska and France for a truly transnational exploration of ephemerality.

The assemblage includes several mirrors, perhaps prompting the viewer to assess their own complicity, as well as a grenade, a reminder of the ephemerality of prosperity.

Instead, the careful selection of artists and works included in the exhibition encourage the visitor to reconsider the unique properties of the medium - primarily its ephemerality, and the ease with which it can be transformed into a variety of different objects - and, in doing so, Paper sheds a new light on this medium as both a raw material and a vehicle for artistic expression.

In her most recent work, she treats her own body as one might play with their online avatar, given the ephemerality and flexibility of its digital presentation.

Albury uses analog materials to discuss ephemerality and invites spontaneous occurrences in everyday moments as a means to access the sublime.

Thick daubs of pigment and pasted - on sections of leaf - shaped paper articulate the tactile, fecund nature of the imagery, but long streaks of color also emphasize the blooms» ephemerality, as though their forms are dematerializing in front of the viewer's eyes.

In her practice, she tests the boundaries of «human minimality» in terms of the fragility and ephemerality of our bodies and employs the experience of the uncanny as the catalyst for conversation, creating complex virtual identities.

Ephemerality is sometimes lacking in most gallery exhibitions due to the market pressure in our current commercial climate, so I felt my approach could rekindle aspects of 60's and 70's avant - garde performances as well as engage with the concept of sculpture as the medium, or starting point, for drawing.

Considering the ephemerality of Joseph Beuys» unique works, his multiples become all the more interesting, as these were objects meant to be kept, objects that carried and communicated a message.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

Too often, activist art is charged with an urgency its very ephemerality bestows upon it, lingering only so long as its context permits, and doomed to an afterlife as dated social commentary.

The work explores themes of consumption, ephemerality and craft, as well as gender roles in the home.

Whether it be Sekhukuni and his use of the Internet as medium, Mooney and her fascination with ephemerality and the social notion of space or Adams and his interrogation of hybrid racial, sexual and religious identities, each are operating outside the stereotypical approaches canonized by South African art history, thanks to the possibilities / challenges presented to them by a new political and cultural climate.

Looking at ephemerality, vulnerability and intimacy, the artists explore what it is to yearn, both physically, as an act of production, and mentally.

Despite the substantial installations of artists such as Small, Ruby and Porras - Kim, however, «Made in L.A. 2016» may well be remembered for its ephemerality.

Rasgado's works deal with such natural phenomena as gravity, light and energy along with their attendant results — time and ephemerality.

Building on the artist's frequent use of visual and verbal puns, Borne Frieze creates a bridge between the political heritage of his home country and the energy, spontaneity, and ephemerality of his artistic practice, which has long included the wall drawing as a key form.

For all their ephemerality, these photographs appear timeless as a distillation of the urban experience.

Still life can be a celebration of material pleasures such as food and wine, or often a warning of the ephemerality of these pleasures and of the brevity of human life (see memento mori).

Founded by Pavel Durov, creator of Russia's equivalent to Facebook, Telegram launched in 2013 as a lightweight messaging app to combine the speed of WhatsApp with the ephemerality of Snapchat along with claimed enhanced privacy and security through its use of the MTProto protocol (Telegram has offered a $ 200,000 prize to any developer who can crack MTProto's security).