Sentences with phrase «into stelae»

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Whether investigating the phenomenon of what she dubs «Turbo Sculpture» — monumental statues of American celebrities and movie characters like Bruce Lee, Johnny Depp, and Rocky Balboa, that have been erected across the former Yugoslavia — or constructing modest steles out of printer paper emblazoned with digital distortions of images from pre - and postwar life, or making semi-autobiographical forays into a rave scene that united the youth of the balkanized Yugoslavian territory, Domanović addresses the ways in which we attempt to heal the wounds of history through conviviality and denial.

Collapsing the deep past (the ancient stele) and the future (the Kubrickian monolith) into the personal and perceptual present, Ms. Truitt's apparently reductive sculptures exude a heady, soulful vibe.