Sentences with phrase «memento mori images»

With Untitled, Stingel puts forward both a meta - image and a memento mori image that through the very process of painting investigates the passage of time, notions of absence and presence, and authenticity and replication.

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In images when the body does not appear, objects such as dead flowers, a mirror, two clocks, soiled underwear, or a string of lights serve as a series of memento mori, reminding the viewer of the abject frailty and transience of life lived during the plague years of the AIDS crisis.

Sometimes, the abstracted images of skulls appears in golden background patterns; sometimes it becomes the main subject, and the powerful iconography reminds the viewers of memento mori, not in sad but in beautified ways through Murakami's cartoonish style.

The viewer experiences images of chapters of a then - relevant book, whose own memento mori has set in once the words hit the page, then captured by Rogan's action of photographing the book, sealing its fate which was already determined at the minute it was conceptualized.

This casual image thus becomes a kind of paradoxical memento mori — it recalls an irretrievable past yet exists in a pure present, one that defies both past and future.

Drawing from diverse photographic genres such as landscape, forensic, Victorian memento mori, occult, and camera-less photography, she investigates the ways in which the material conditions and specialized languages of the photographic medium shape our relations to history, power, and the production of images.