Drawing on
multiple artistic languages and media, these works repositioned the black female presence from the margins to the centre of debates about representation and art making.
In their capacity to evoke both the natural and supernatural, whilst synthesizing
multiple artistic languages, the Face Paintings return the medium to a kind of ground zero, allowing Grotjahn to explore new possibilities both for painting and for one of its most time - honored subjects: the human face.
Not exact matches
To convey the myriad
artistic languages employed by the Futurists as they evolved over a 35 - year period, this chronological exhibition will integrate
multiple disciplines in each section.
Transiting through
multiple languages, such as painting, photography, performative action and video, Desali's work is marked by the subversion of hierarchies, both
artistic and social.
Shot in 16 mm and 35 mm and using a visual
language so reduced it is at times almost abstracted, the works use the early cinematographic technique of
multiple exposure as a framework to investigate synchronicity and divergence, originality and reproduction and the deferment of
artistic control.
To convey the myriad
artistic languages employed by the Futurists as they evolved over a 35 - year period, the exhibition integrates
multiple disciplines in each section.
Rather, each painting is an assemblage of
multiple artistic hands, borrowing from visual
languages across time.