Not exact matches
Unfortunately, many
viewers who did make the leap also tried to
impose their beliefs
upon the play — and then criticized J. B. for not sustaining their interpretation.
Her work mimics the urban environment in both materiality and the nature of the
imposing structures that swallow — or impede
upon — the
viewer.
Last spring, the department hosted mixed - media artist Ebony Patterson, whose work pulls the
viewer in and forces them to bear witness to the violence and social injustices
imposed upon those deemed invisible.
Both of these works present an original author and work, in the forms of painting and sculpture, yet these voices become mediated and distanced from the
viewer through the various subjectivities that have been
imposed upon them.
For Buren, works of art falsify reality by projecting a purely subjective vision
upon it, and, especially in the context of a gallery or museum, they undermine the freedom of thought and perception in
viewers by
imposing a false, ideological illusion.