By adulthood we have become experts at judging depth but only with regard to
objects in familiar environments.
Not exact matches
If you must board them, having a
familiar object such as a blanket or toy may prevent the cat from becoming too distraught
in a strange
environment.
In placing us at a remove from our relationships to
familiar, domestic
objects and
environments, the labor - intensive work of Robert Gober (born 1954) defies our understanding of accepted conventions and draws attention to the movement of meaning between materials and across personal histories.
The immersive
environment,
in which Johnson has produced, integrates materials from
familiar contexts, such as rugs, mirrors, wood flooring, and shelves, which have been appropriated within this body of work
in order to propose questions of the limitations of the art
object and the power it beholds.
She recontextualizes
familiar found
objects, handmade figurines, and brief emotive phrases, and contains them
in a built
environment inside hand blown glass shaped as body organs.
Mona Hatoum, born
in Lebanon 1952, does so with ease — as if manifesting the aesthetics foreign policy out of thin air, using
familiar objects to craft sleek, suggestive
environments that appear governmental
in their use.