Sentences with phrase «notions of body image»

Using herself as subject, Schomaker examines notions of body image and concepts of beauty.

Her outsized, fleshy and frequently disturbing paintings of naked women flout the rules of traditional nude painting, challenging conceived notions of body image.

Not exact matches

Themes explored in the exhibition include emergent ideas of the body and notions of human enhancement; the internet as a site of both surveillance and resistance; the circulation and control of images and information; possibilities for new subjectivities, communities, and virtual worlds; and new economies of visibility initiated by social media.

«SELF REFLECTION is an intersectional approach to issues of «gender, identity, sexuality, body image, censorship, and self - liberation,» says The Untitled Space Gallery, and the artists involve use their own autonomy as a means of addressing «the personal as political via self - reflection and reinvention, tackling conventional notions of female image and taboo.»

Image: © the artist Courtesy White Cube 3 September — 2 October 2010 White Cube Mason's Yard Known for works that meditate on notions of time, landscape and travel, as well as political and historical memory, Almond brings these themes together in two bodies of work: a series of time - lapse photographs taken in the Faroe Islands, -LSB-...]

Ana Mendieta's images record the momentary action of her performance works, which investigate the body, landscape, and notions of permanence.

From found magazine images of distorted human body to investigation of consumerist desires, notions the late artist handled in her humorous and vivid practice still seem to endure.

In Burton's most ambitious exhibition to date, the artist will present a new body of photographs that explore the practice of image making and the notion of performance through his personal relationships within Los Angeles.

Exploring indexical motifs such as the dissolution of language, the theatricalised body and the «breakdown» of an image, the project questions how a notion such as «exhaustion» can be formally enacted.

This duality is not dissimilar from Schneemann's use of her body to challenge fixed notions of the female nude, representing herself as both image and image - maker.

Delving into this body of images, Gates considers African art forms and notions of primitivism in modern art alongside his own research and making process, and responds to questions from the audience.

The artist thinks of his performance works as images which become animated and, in Amidst a Sea of Flailing High Heels and Cooking Utensils, an ensemble of male and female dancers performed to an original live musical composition, adopting poses derived from Renaissance notions of the ideal body, and singing musical refrains extrapolated from pop songs.

Themes explored in the exhibition include emergent ideas of the body and notions of human enhancement; the internet as a site of both surveillance and resistance; the circulation and control of images and information; the possibilities for exploring identity and community afforded by virtual domains; and new economies of visibility accelerated by social media.

Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, creating series of images that explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity.

In these fragmented images where one doesn't know where something starts and where it begins, where the notions of origins and originals are deconstructed, the theme of violence is metaphorically being reproduced — the spectators are exposed to the traces of violence on amputated human bodies.