Not exact matches
He reserved his deepest faith not for America but for the world as he saw it, on the theological assumption that the ordinary and
everyday — the most
mundane elements of human
existence — are a gift from God.
Big moments and traditional satisfactions are eschewed (e.g., the first film counts down the distance to Havana only to abruptly end over a hundred miles short of the destination) in favor of detailing
everyday, almost
mundane,
existence for those in the trenches fighting the power.
By transferring these
mundane advertisements from their short - lived
existence into a work of art, Kelley once again states his continued interest in peripheral
everyday activities.
Employing a range of typically
mundane construction materials (plywood, corkboard, concrete, tiling, steel), forms to which we have become desensitised in the «real world» are appropriated to reflect a new understanding of the values of
everyday existence.
Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of
Everyday Life is a photographic exhibition examining the legacy of the apartheid system and how it penetrated even the most
mundane aspects of social
existence in South Africa, from housing, public amenities, and transportation to education, tourism, religion, and businesses.
The combined effect is to transport the viewer from the
mundane world of
everyday existence into a world more transcendent.