Hybridity refers to the combination or mixing of different elements, ideas, or cultures to create something new and diverse. It is a concept that celebrates the blending or fusing of various components or influences, resulting in a unique and often innovative form.
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With this complex series of visual analogies between the ancient - to - modern
hybridity of the greater region, On the Wall: Assaf Evron charts recurring forms and themes across a multitude of overlapping historical, cultural, and political narratives.
Their interdisciplinary practices allude to the complexity of
cultural hybridity propelled by contemporary, digital diasporas.
From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural
hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.
Working with paint, fabric, photographs, and found objects, Los Angeles - based Saar considers issues such
as hybridity, identity, and acceptance through «depiction of persons outside the realm of what is commonly believed to be «normal» — be it defined in physical, mental, neurological, sexual, or racial terms.»
2008 worked on a multi media installation project
on Hybridity in collaboration with London based artist / photographer Dave Luise.
This screening and conversation considers how the cyborg has become a new paradigm for thinking
about hybridity, expanded constructions of identity, and the boundary between the virtual and the real.
In Seeker (2012), Willis Thomas collaborated with Sanford Biggers, an artist also interested in the relationship between history, politics, and contemporary culture, to play with the idea of
racial hybridity.
By creating a historical opening between the past and the present, this exhibition presents artists working across the Middle East and South Asia to explore ideas about artistic and cultural
hybridity between different regions.
Although aware of its unequivocal
hybridity with fragility and temporality, it is deemed private, everlasting and manageable against the volatile anxieties of the external.
His ongoing research
into hybridity and transmutation has come to form a central thread in his practice.
Using jellyfish as a motif to examine consumption, environmental degradation and issues surrounding global warming, the work's delicate beauty and
unsettling hybridity invites viewers into an enveloping, contemplative space to reflect on their own relationship with the ocean environment, the natural world and the issues emerging from future climate change.
Using jellyfish as a motif to examine consumption, environmental degradation and issues surrounding global warming, the work's delicate beauty and unsettling
hybridity invites viewers into an enveloping, contemplative space to reflect on their own relationship with the ocean environment, the natural world and the issues emerging from future climate change.
In the post-Conquest period, casta paintings sought to document the varieties of interracial mixing in the New World in an attempt to classify and frame racial diversity and
hybridity through a complex casta system.
Renowned for his sculptural re-contextualization of everyday objects, Dario Escobar's work explores concepts of cultural and historical
hybridity ultimately attempting to reexamine Western art history from a Guatemalan perspective.
Installation view of Saya Woolfalk: «ChimaTEK:
Hybridity Visualization System» at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 2015.
My aim is to create a burgeoning world that has
hybridity at its core.
By fusing the vernacular of Western portraiture with visual motifs found in Islamic art, Fallah's paintings speak to his
own hybridity as an Iranian immigrant.
Based on print sources from Japan's Edo period (1600 - 1868), the work contemporizes the dramatic Ukiyo - e tradition — popular genre pictures of the «floating world,» a hedonistic, after - hours milieu inhabited by geishas, Kabuki actors, and samurai — to represent unexpected
hybridities born of cultural sampling and material excess.
British artist John Russell argues
for hybridity's subversive potential in his new sculptures and mixed - medium paintings.
Gareth Young responds by asking Mitchell and other Brits who wish to save the Union to imagine a multi-national Britain that
embraces hybridity instead of relying on Anglo - centric notions of Britishness
Farrow's His Kind of Woman takes this idea of
generic hybridity and cranks it up to 11.
The paper
uses hybridity theory as a basis for leveraging «third space» theory as a way to conceive how to create coherence.
Then it was SUVs and wagons, and now, Lexus has
added hybridity to the premium sedan niche with the new LS 500h.
«As the lone visible instance of animal - to - human infection, rabies has always shaded into something more supernatural: into bestial metamorphoses, into
monstrous hybridities.
However, by bringing in the work of artists from across the world, with a particular emphasis on the Global South, Prospect 4 reproduces the conditions which made New Orleans such fertile ground for creativity in the first place; a port city where paths converge, creating a hub of
indissoluble hybridity.
The beauty that can emerge from cultural transfer and
hybridity surely will be the overarching effect of these exhibitions, along with the particular political power of each artist's work.
«Creating art that is honed from a conceptualism that pays homage to minimalist practices of the 1970s and reinvents identity - based explorations of the 1980s, Simmons came of age aesthetically in the 1990s and his work represents the
fluid hybridity of that time,» wrote Thelma Golden in the exhibition catalogue Gary Simmons (2002).
For instance, ruby onyinyechi amanze, a Brooklyn - based artist of Nigerian birth and British upbringing, creates art influenced and inspired by the
culture hybridity, according to BRIC.
The performance will explore cultural and
spiritual hybridity to which the Haitian musicians» identities add a new layer.
But in today's economy, the gallerist as cultural entrepreneur and arbiter exercises a
professional hybridity far removed from Kahnweiler's day.
The same sensibility at work in my sculpture is here, too: a love of the serio - comic, a delight with pattern and intense color, as well as a
surrealist hybridity that happily mixes sources and categories.
digital collages that explore racial and cultural ambiguity through
visual hybridity, like the work of each artist in this exhibition, demonstrate that late 20th - century predictions of the end of traditional fine «art» practice at the dawn of digital culture were simply wrong.
We encourage permeability within and outside of our discipline to remain responsive not only to paintings» venerable traditions, but also to its
increasing hybridity and ongoing redefinitions.
According to the artist, rice is a symbol for cultural
hybridity because it translates into the cuisine of most countries.
Dutch wax textiles have been a signature of his work for many years, and represent the cultural
hybridity central to his practice and the rich complexity of post-colonial cultures.
By incorporating this fabric in the costumes of the two ballerinas, Shonibare presents a statement about the
complex hybridity that exists between Europe and Africa.
In interviews, Crosby has addressed the use of intimate scenes between herself and her husband as a way of speaking to her own Nigerian -
American hybridity or «union between two cultures».
Born in Brazil, Shiokava is ethnically Japanese, and his work embodies a cultural
hybridity played out in the distinction between his wood and macramé totems, which he says represent, respectively, the Japanese and Brazilian sides of himself.
I sat down with Saya in her studio at Wave Hill to find out more about her ideas
regarding hybridity and the intricacies of the world she has invented surrounding the Empathics.
I'm really interested in
hybridity from a cultural perspective, but I chose to focus on inter-species hybridization because I didn't want it to be merely about the fusion and mixture of culture, but also about the transparency of boundaries between things we identify as whole in and of themselves.
With references to popular culture, Jaishri Abichandani and Mariam Ghani have made works the
examine hybridity in New York City where they live.
The topic of the exhibition, the change of private and personal comfort zones in the Digital Age, complements Gannis's The Selfie Drawings that deal with contemporary states of analog -
virtual hybridity and identity performance.
The visual references to wings and body parts evoke a
disorienting hybridity, as if collage and assemblage are being used to evoke a dreamlike monstrosity.