Sentences with phrase «historical narratives»

Her art can be seen alongside historical narratives on her website www.yasminhernandez.com.

Working with sound, film, performance, and objects, Kiwanga relies on extensive research to transform raw information into investigations of historical narratives and their impact on political, social, and community formation.

Working with sound, film, performance, and objects, Kapwani Kiwanga (born in Canada, based in Paris) relies on extensive research to transform raw information into investigations of historical narratives and their impact on political, social, and community formation.

We are thinking about Jimmie Durham as one of the most inventive American artists working today who has for the past forty years created work that considers and critiques the complexities of historical narratives and notions of authenticity.»

The exhibition draws on an in - process collection of poems that amplify a sense of loss or un-speakability within fragmented historical narratives.

The Studio Museum has had an undeniable impact in diversifying the staff of cultural organizations and raising awareness around African American and African diaspora art historical narratives in the sector.

With a multimedia practice that encompasses works on paper, film, and performance, Shawky reconsiders historical narratives and contemporary culture.

In Ke Lefa Laka / Her - story, a photographic series based on familial loss and becoming, she disrupts historical narratives by inserting her own body, dressed in similar attire, into original photographs of her mother.

Exposing the curatorial decisions made to navigate strong cultural traditions and deconstructed historical narratives, Miralles will reflect on the complexities in conveying what is «Cuban» beyond the political or national qualities of the project.

Four artists in A Modernist in the Colony and Infinite Archive explore historical narratives within the collection and respond with new work through a contemporary lens.

Jumana Manna (born in New Jersey, lives and works in Jerusalem and Berlin) uses primarily film / video and sculpture to explore historical narratives, nationalism and subcultural communities.

Emily Jacir (1972, Palestine) is a Palestinian - American artist and filmmaker whose ongoing practice is concerned with movement through public space, exchange and silenced historical narratives.

Her work often features participatory performances employing historical narratives and modern materials to recreate and reinterpret objects and bygone environments that she has researched extensively.

An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives in work that are both witty and unsettling.

Curator (forthcoming) Developing Historical Narratives, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography and Critical Distance, Toronto, ON, 2018

Téllez's film will be followed in 2019 by Julien's installation, Rochester Pictures, which will weave together historical narratives about Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, both of whom lived in Rochester for periods of their lives.

In a statement, the curatorial team emphasized that this survey was not meant to be fixed or comprehensive but was rather a «critical new beginning,» which would, in the years to come, lay the groundwork for numerous potential historical narratives.

Anthony Romero is a Chicago artist, writer, and curator interested in documenting and supporting artists and communities whose narratives and practices are often excluded from art historical narratives and exhibitions.

Renowned for work that is as poetic as it is political and biographical, Jacir investigates silenced historical narratives, translation, movement, resistance, transformation and exchange.

The featured works — all of which are new commissions — portray often - overlooked cultural and historical narratives and examine concepts of geography and nation - state.

Like the discreet drawing by Ilya Smirnov, «No Title Provided», placed above the radiator, or the small consumed candles on canvases by Josip Nosovel in the corner, Il Futuro era bellissimo per noi triggers a short - circuit mixing low and high culture, dominant historical narratives and esoterica, pop culture and cheap technology — temporalities, language, tone — in a moment that is both sentimental in mood and very dark in humour.

In each of their essays, the curators weave art - historical narratives into narratives about the South as a center of slavery, ongoing racism, and social justice: analyses of the assemblages of Southern artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, or the color photography of William Eggleston and William Christenberry, mix with accounts of the civil rights movements and racial violence.

Public art visionary and Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak joins internationally acclaimed artist Shazia Sikander to discuss the creative process and its application, the nature of storytelling and how historical narratives can be reshaped, redefined and re-appropriated.

Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room - sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth - century art of cut - paper silhouettes.

In 1981, Rodney studied BA Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham, where he was profoundly affected by encounters with artists such as Keith Piper, Eddie Chambers, Marlene Smith and Claudette Johnson, who were re-examining social and historical narratives from a black perspective.

And so, Raad's astringent performance and sizable exhibition of works associated with the long - term project Scratching on Things I Could Disavow (2007 — ongoing) delve into the after - effects of violence in the Middle East that are not only political but also economic, such as the creation of a retirement fund for artists that blithely hops across the major fault line of the Arab — Israeli conflict, or the construction of new museum projects in the Gulf, or the movement of Raad's own work in relation to art - historical narratives in different places and times that exert various pressures on him, which at one point appear to drive the artist - as - performer insane.

What does it mean for a national museum of modern art to embrace the «global» and «cultural diversity» when their collections are rooted in Eurocentric art historical narratives?

Her works reference distressed interiors as well as repressed historical narratives.

Although enforcing quotas is generally unpopular, curators and museum directors are unafraid of challenging traditional art historical narratives, and women artists have been given more prominence within exhibition schedules and collection re-hangs.

The artists included are each dedicated to an elastic processing of the world as a means of undoing mainstream historical narratives.

Through his work, Pendleton seeks to establish «a future dynamic where new historical narratives and meanings can exist.»

Reid Kelley's texts loosen the grip of words, and of historical narratives as an extension, so as to free them from the stalemate of tradition.

We are thrilled to expand upon existing art historical narratives by offering our audiences a fresh, in - depth, multifaceted look at his distinct artistic practice.»

Acting as literal conversation pieces, the objects in the installation also serve as possible props to drive new historical narratives.

Through performance, video, and installation, Bambitchell (Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Mitchell) has developed an expansive research practice working with national archives and historical narratives, informing the duo's rigorous yet playful approach to querying power.

Because the series dealt with recent history and examined how certain historical narratives were analyzed, I had to be very precise and meticulous with depiction of the past, and this was very exhausting.

The artists exhibiting further the conversation of painting in a post-historical era of art where figures and representation is not bound by historical narratives or for that matter the conceptual ideology of contemporary art.

He often assumes a detached outsider point of view, in conflict with dominant historical narratives.

With their sexual protrusions and curves, Sánchez's paintings offer a refreshing, feminist retort to standard art - historical narratives

Showing how she fits into different art historical narratives, her work is also part of group shows at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, NJ, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Jessica Harvey uses ashes to create black and white photograms that resemble a distanced view of stars in space, whereas Erika Råberg's work depicts the romantic absurdity that transpires in recreating historical narratives.

Susan Philipsz» exhibition for Eastside Projects in Birmingham continues her research into the capacity for sound to reimagine historical narratives.

Although these artists have been largely written out of received art historical narratives on the basis both of their ethnicity and their geography, this book makes a forceful case for their importance.

Shahar Marcus views the history of his country with tenderness laced with irony, reflecting on his own legacy, the natural environment and on how historical narratives are created.

They offer a refreshing, feminist retort to standard art - historical narratives.

Part of a series of allegorical photographs based on Roman life, the works point to Antin's desire to rewrite historical narratives.

His work investigates the nature of paradox, using historical narratives, language and appropriated imagery.

The works installed on five floors of the gleaming Renzo Piano building tell a story that is complex, and at times contradictory, while demonstrating the limitations of official art - historical narratives in articulating the various trajectories of art and culture in the United States and in the 20th century.

On the flip side, the artist uses language satirically to disrupt the implied historical narratives of political propaganda, religion, and mass media in America.

Sterne has been almost completely overlooked in art historical narratives of the post-war American art scene.