Sentences with phrase «in cultural mythologies»

With an interest in cultural mythologies, narratives and everyday life, these materials served as a vital source in his practice.

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If one can recognise the vital role which the mass media are playing in this regard and understand some of its major mythologies, exploration of the process and media mythologies offers a rich resource for theological reflection and the cultural contextualization of faith.

Is the Muslim terrorist really such a strange, marginal, and alien figure in our own cultural history and mythology?

This is the reason why historic Christianity, in the long run, always granted a place to other cultural traditions: paganism survived in law; its mythology enjoyed a series of rebirths in art.

«We now know,» says Saturno, «that mythology that was important in the16th century was equally important in the first century,» which establishes a degree of cultural continuity.

Since Homer's Illiad and Odyssey committed their exploits to text, the heroes of Greco - Roman mythology have proliferated in the cultural realm.

It's comparable to the emergence of Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands — reactions, both, to Eisenhower eras defined by cultural repression and the indoctrinated magnification of the mythology of the American male.

His latest film, The Ornithologist (2016), is a quasi-western shot in anamorphic widescreen that follows one man's bird watching trip that takes him through the pressures of nature, mysterious cultural rites, and a bricolage of mythologies that in turn transform him.

The situation in which our protagonist finds herself, and all the characters that surround her, everything we see in the film, I would say is deeply rooted in the Russian cultural tradition and the mythology of the place in literature.

Terra Feminarum, released on Kalevala day, may not be as important in the cultural scale but it's an uncanny marriage between Kalevala mythology and Japanese danmaku shoot»em up (bullet hell shooter).

Mulaka is a 3D action - adventure sport that appears to the Sierra Tarahumara area of northern Mexico and channels its cultural heritage into a captivating journey steeped in mythology.

Often in dialogue with literature, the early work of this visionary artist explored mythology and cultural archetypes related to gender, while more recent projects address our complex relationship to the natural world.

As an independent curator, he has presented exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, such as Mythologies - Brazilian Contemporary Photography (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2012); Éloge du Vertige (Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2012); Generation 00 - The New Brazilian Photography (Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo, 2011), Look and Simulate - Photographies from Collection Auer (MAM - SP, 2009), The Invention of the World - Collection of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (Itaú Cultural, 2009, with Jean Luc Monterosso), Provisional Power (MAM - SP, 2014).

Today, he continues to probe cultural mythologies and archetypes in various media, appropriating imagery from animated films, mail - order catalogues, modernist abstraction, and street graffiti to create an artistic lexicon that insistently collapses the boundaries between high and low.

Moderated by Lauren Haynes, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection, this conversation will explore the scope of this exhibition in relation to broader cultural concerns, and unpack the roles of performance, mythology and narrative in Hancock's practice.

Some works in the show call up more recent cultural mythologies pervading black representation.

Three themes that emerge from her work are explored in Outcasts: finding a voice, the process of constructing multiple perspectives on female identity; hybrid alternatives to the status quo, harnessing ancient and modern mythologies to subvert the established social and cultural order; and healing and empowerment as pathways to resistance, inclusiveness and recovery from loss and trauma.

His criticisms reveal the tenuous truths of their original messages, asking his audience to consider the often unsavory consequences and legacies that lie in the shadows of our cultural mythologies.

A world - renowned artist, McCarthy works in a wide variety of media, often exploring the idea of the artist - protagonist through American cultural mythology.

He never seizes to challenge our preconceived notions and questions of cultural hierarchy, the mythology of the artist and his position in society, or modes of production.

Knight Foundation January 21 - April 8, 2018 - Solo Show The Unavoidable Twilight - AIRIE Nest Gallery - Everglades National Park October 18, 2017 - January 8, 2018 - Solo Show Mythology & Site - Deering Estate - Miami November 19, 2017 - January 5, 2018 - Group Show SIXTH - curated by Jane Hart Bridge Red Studios / Project Space November 30, 2017 - Four Women Show The Reform of Consciousness - curated by Nina Surel Collective 62 October - November 2017 - Artist Residency - Crandon Park September 8 - October 22, 2018 - Group Show Dual Frequency South Florida Cultural Consortium - Art and Culture Center of Hollywood June 28 - Open Studios Fountainhead Studios June - September 2017 - Two of my drawings are featured in the Perez Art Museum's Inside / Out Public Art Program, which brings reproductions of artworks from their collection into Miami neighborhoods.

Her fantastical and elaborate artwork is rooted in the disciplines of anthropology, mythology and cultural studies.

The four artists in Revision: Translating Histories engage with cultural ancestries ranging from Haitian migration and Yoruba beliefs to the everyday mythologies of good luck charms and barber capes to craft contemporary portraits of deep - rooted canons.

In Kent Monkman's first New York solo show, which closes this weekend at Sargent's Daughters, art history commingles with cultural mythology in a passion play about masculinity and belonginIn Kent Monkman's first New York solo show, which closes this weekend at Sargent's Daughters, art history commingles with cultural mythology in a passion play about masculinity and belonginin a passion play about masculinity and belonging.

Biographical legend, produced in the construction of an individual mythology, is a critique of biographism; it gives shape to the identity crises experienced by individuals in their various cultural and social relations of belonging.

His works question today social and cultural phenomenons (individualism, nomadism, personal mythologies) in relation with European identity, conceived as a paradigm.

Valeska Soares (b. 1957) was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and from a young age, she was exposed to references from a variety of cultural milieus, including poetry, literature, film, psychology, and mythology.

Becker is interested in these landscapes as an intersection of personal identity, cultural mythologies, and political power.

In this class, you will explore your own set of personal and cultural narratives that contribute to your image - making mythology.

Drawing from such wide - ranging cultural areas as film, fashion photography, literature, mythology, news images, sports, and individuals she meets in her day - to - day life, Wylie paints colorful and exuberant compositions that are uniquely recognizable.