Sentences with phrase «for abjection»

Not exact matches

The same goes for Choi Min - suk's intensely physical lead performance, which careens from raving belligerence to groveling abjection.

Mana Contemporary's Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA) and Umm el — Fahem Gallery are pleased to present a private viewing of Textile — Territory — Text, a group exhibition that examines concepts of identity, belonging, abjection, and exile in contemporary textile art works by Middle Eastern artists, with a special one - night only performance.

You might think the famous opening paragraph of Kristeva's 1980 book, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, would make an appropriate epigraph for the Emin show, especially if you substitute «art» when the word «literature» is mentioned.

«Throughout a night without images but buffeted by black sounds; amidst a throng of forsaken bodies beset with no longing but to last against all odds and for nothing; on a page where I plotted out the convolutions of those who, in transference, presented me with the gift of their void — I have spelled out abjection.

For this collection, abjection is not a threat to the psyche or to meaning itself, but a woman's destiny.

For artists like these, delirium means abjection.

For once, in an art world that worships the casual gestural sketch, these are predominantly complex, skilful and ideas - based drawings, weaving witty, disturbing or powerful fantasies about aesthetics as well as abjection.

The tense ambiguity lingering in that expression provides an appropriate metaphor for Michaël's work, characterized as it is by subtle symmetries of stunning beauty and disturbing abjection, humor and despair, strength and fragility.

It features marble and bronze sculptures that represent the abjection of human bodies sustained during armed conflict and torture, as well as the rebellious attitude of the victims who defiantly stand up for their rights.

Pensato spikes her mix with the black - and - white starkness of Christopher Wool and the defiant abjection of Joan Jett's «I Hate Myself for Loving You.»

The shorthand term for it is abjection, a deliberate immersion in the gross - out anarchy associated with youth culture.

For Georges Bataille, abjection's other philosophical touchstone, the lowest of social ejecta — the lumpen — was also a privileged revolutionary agent.

Two shows eschewed feminine looking for female abjection.

He embraced it all, though selectively, in the same way he did modern art, paying attention to Abstract Expressionism's appetite for color; to Joan Miró's soft - porn blobs and curves; to Joseph Cornell's blend of adorableness and abjection.