Yet where Kelley approached his abject bodies with the calculated distance of a Freudian with his test subjects, Pylypchuk enters the protocols
of abjection from within.
In fact there's a good deal
of abjection in «Like Life,» as if the curators» aim was as much to shock, disconcert, and repel — gratuitously — as it was to illuminate a byway of sculptural history.
Showing new paintings and sculptures, the works will draw from «the clinical as a structural and social form
of abjection.»
Seen together, the work offers a fractured, brooding landscape, mirroring the internal psyche of the protagonist and channeling feelings
of abjection, strength and freedom.
Seen as a whole, Runaways channels feelings
of abjection, strength, freedom, and empowerment.
Her latest book is Abjection and Representation: An Exploration
of Abjection in the Visual Arts, Film and Literature (2014).
By exploring the dichotomies
of abjection / beauty, abandonment / care, and destruction / creation, each painting gives the viewer a sense that these peculiar objects were found in their decayed but colorful state rather than made, allowing them to fluctuate anachronistically between the historical and the contemporary.
Viewing F. T. Marinetti's 1909 «Futurist Manifesto» as a precursor to hip - hop artist the Notorious B.I.G.'s «Machine Gun Funk,» the phrase «Ruffneck Constructivists» evokes thuggishness as an expression
of abjection.
Today, in the face
of abjection and solitude, his heart said: «No».
Masterful performances abound, though it's the brutalized women who come out on top in spite
of their abjection.
A neighbor takes her to the hospital and she returns hours later with her wrists wrapped as dazzling white emblems
of her abjection.
Not exact matches
All the same, the outward signs
of this sinners
abjection have real weight; they're not hollow like the moral man's overblown speech.
Set during Scotland's national garbage strike
of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences
of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the
abjection that surrounds him.
Charity: I, personally, am more sympathetic to M'Baku's rude» tude, and to the political
abjection of the Jabari tribe, than I am to either T'Challa's isolationism or Killmonger's expansionist nationalism.
Over the course
of thirty years, Miller has produced a diverse body
of work that, in addition to figuration, addresses language, valuation, social hierarchy and
abjection.
From being greeted by Katharina Fritsch's disturbingly hip, pony - tailed Händler (Dealer)(2001), with his one cloven - hoof, to Richard Prince's appropriated Marlboro Man photograph Cowboys, to David Hammons's arcing circle
of glued together liquor bottles Untitled, to a huge room - full
of Jim Shaw's profoundly weird collection
of Thrift Store Paintings (1970 - ongoing), Unexchangeable does the remarkable task
of restating the problem
of art's paradoxical position between exclusivity and ordinary life, poised between rarity and
abjection.
Mana Contemporary's Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA) and Umm el — Fahem Gallery are pleased to present a private viewing
of Textile — Territory — Text, a group exhibition that examines concepts
of identity, belonging,
abjection, and exile in contemporary textile art works by Middle Eastern artists, with a special one - night only performance.
You might think the famous opening paragraph
of Kristeva's 1980 book, Powers
of Horror: An Essay on
Abjection, would make an appropriate epigraph for the Emin show, especially if you substitute «art» when the word «literature» is mentioned.
«Throughout a night without images but buffeted by black sounds; amidst a throng
of forsaken bodies beset with no longing but to last against all odds and for nothing; on a page where I plotted out the convolutions
of those who, in transference, presented me with the gift
of their void — I have spelled out
abjection.
Through video, she examines painting and other visceral acts connected with associations
of desire and
abjection placed on female bodies in culture, and opposed to associations
of power and virility placed on male bodies.
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of live / work spaces», Wallpaper, July Thorne, Harry, «Network Control», Frieze, July Piejko, Jennifer, «Art Basel and Liste», Art Agenda, June Fattori Franchini, Attilia, «Yuri Pattison», Kaleidoscope, Issue # 26, Winter 2015 Herbert, Martin, «British Art Show 8», Frieze, November Dell, April, «
Abjection in the Digital Age at Import Projects», BerlinArtLink, September Bondi de Antoni, Alexandra, `'» Abjects» examines the vulnerability
of the real world in the digital age», i - D, September Sherwin, Skye, «10 Artists You Should Meet», 10 Magazine, August Nettel, Michaela, «Yuri Pattison: «There needs to be more knowledge sharing within the London art community», www.a-n.co.uk, July van der Heide, Bart, «Yuri Pattison», interview, Mousse # 49, June 2015 Bondi de Antoni, Alexandra, «cosmos carl», i - D, June Pattison, Yuri, «The Crypt
of Civilization 1940 — 2015 ---------8113», commission, Art Papers, May Joel, Dean, «Morphing Overnight», this is tomorrow, April Guggenheim, Katie, Sleek Magazine No. 45, Spring 2014 Khan, Nora N., «Free Traveller at Cell Project Space», DIS Magazine, November Grace, Banks, «Installations, installations and... installations», Elephant Frieze Review, October Dixon, Tim, «Yuri Pattison: Free Traveller» review, this is tomorrow, October Thorpe, Harriet, «Yuri Pattison: Free Traveller», Studio International, October Benson, Louise, «Free Traveller» interview, POST Matter, www.postmatter.com, September Hothi, Ajay, «Lonely Arts», Art Monthly # 379, September Rochat, Jeanne - Salomé, «colocation, time displacement» feature, Novembre Magazine # 9, Spring 2014 Archey, Karen, «RELiable COMmunications» cover feature & interview, Art Papers, May / June Robertson, Adi, «Reliable Communications» turns Soviet message boards into online art», The Verge, www.theverge.com, March Luke, Ben, «Web
of Intrigue», The Art Newspaper Number 254, February Kay, Jean, «An Interview with Yuri Pattison», www.aqnb.com, January 2013 Davidson, Laura, «Traveling Through Layers: Yuri Pattison and his Leakers», www.rhizome.com, Jan 2012 Davies - Crook, Susanna, Yuri Pattison: Faraday Cage, interview, www.dazeddigital.com, March Nairne, Eleanor, «Yuri Pattison» focal - plane review, Frieze # 145, March 2011 Bailey, Stephanie, «Yuri Pattison, focal - plane» critic's pick, Artforum, December Symester, Chantelle, «Yuri Pattison: Focal - Plane» interview, www.dazeddigital.com, December
His current body
of work is a series
of «painthings,» formal sculptural objects made exclusively
of paint; these objects play with ideas
of representation in
abjection to conventional hegemony
of the image.
Running since September 18 and featuring work by Eloise Bonneviot, Emily Jones, Paul Kneale, Yuri Pattison, and Andrew Norman Wilson, the exhibition explores how the word «
abjection» applies to specific circumstances and «poses the emergence
of a new kind
of abject lurking underneath contemporary experiences mediated by technology».
Her paintings and sculptures may be knocked - about as well as knockabout, but there is a great deal
of personal
abjection in them.
Inspired by Julia Kristeva's 1980 essay «Powers
of the Horrors: An essay on
Abjection», the show explores her notion
of the abject and its «psychic origins and mechanisms
of revulsion and disgust» emerging out
of a confrontation with death, with violence, with vulnerability
of decay.
In the three years since her last solo exhibition at the gallery, Rafferty has been pushing forward her dialogue with materials and strategies
of making while continuing to engage themes that have been preoccupying her in her work to date: mid - to late - 20th - century media culture and the proliferation and subsequent impoverishment
of imagery that has arrived in its wake; tropes
of performance and comedy; and the theatricalized, often female, body, with its simultaneous centrality and
abjection.
The tense ambiguity lingering in that expression provides an appropriate metaphor for Michaël's work, characterized as it is by subtle symmetries
of stunning beauty and disturbing
abjection, humor and despair, strength and fragility.
It features marble and bronze sculptures that represent the
abjection of human bodies sustained during armed conflict and torture, as well as the rebellious attitude
of the victims who defiantly stand up for their rights.
Through the plastic tubing, liquid courses through her concrete sculptures, highlighting woman's aqueous embodiment and challenging the
abjection that surrounds the female body and it's production
of bodily fluids.
Bradford's paintings invoke Romanticism in their large scale and in the fluctuation between passages
of beauty and
abjection, disgust, or horror.
Her gnarly compositions conjure romantically - charged narratives while delving into the grotesque aspects
of her subjects, simultaneously highlighting both the beauty and the
abjection of human eroticism.
These almost always feature his Turbosquid avatar, «Dave,» who enables him to delve into issues
of language and
abjection in digital media (Turbosquid is a website that sells stock 3 - D digital models).
Two silk - screened posters — advertising pieces by Otto Muehl — and seven deliciously goofy kid - style images by Dieter Roth show Wool to be less
of a painter and more
of a designer
of sassy graphics in which Midwestern cleverness rubs shoulders with Eurotrash
abjection and both are passed off as urbane sophistication.
Comprised simply
of a generic carpet encrusted with disposable gloves, hardened spray foam, and general art studio detritus, Center transcends straightforward
abjection.
Pensato spikes her mix with the black - and - white starkness
of Christopher Wool and the defiant
abjection of Joan Jett's «I Hate Myself for Loving You.»
Hijikata situated butoh as an outlaw, literary, and surrealist dance form, drawing on themes
of death, criminality,
abjection, and corporeality.
Co-director
of EB&F low, Margherita Berloni explains, «through this her work displays an element
of shamanistic and transgressive ritual, a kind
of simultaneous veneration and
abjection of the animal.»
Previous works have looked to the contemporary media sphere and its relationship to the visceral body, the degenerative aspects
of pervasive new technologies, to cultural forms
of fanaticism and cults, to ideas
of attraction and repulsion, body horror, the defamiliarisation
of the human body and cartoon
abjection.
The show accompanies and expands on the London - based artist and writer's novella Virus, also published by Arcadia Missa, and follows the Stupart's concerns with gender, language mutation and
abjection in a «virulent and embodied critique
of sexism and structural violence in art and artworlds.»
For Georges Bataille,
abjection's other philosophical touchstone, the lowest
of social ejecta — the lumpen — was also a privileged revolutionary agent.
He embraced it all, though selectively, in the same way he did modern art, paying attention to Abstract Expressionism's appetite for color; to Joan Miró's soft - porn blobs and curves; to Joseph Cornell's blend
of adorableness and
abjection.
Long before slackers and Gen X-ers embraced the emblems
of kitsch and
abjection, they were wielded by artists as proof
of rebellion against the constraints
of art - historical tradition.
Aspects
of surrealism and
abjection are paired with his anxious building
of topographical textures with acrylic paint; he insists that his figures seemingly remain in state
of primordial becoming.
In Untitled, Albert Oehlen subverts the authority
of the avant - garde, creating an abstraction
of dumbed - down
abjection.
That same year, there were two other exhibitions that examined ideas
of failure and
abjection — this category
of «loser art» as it was called, which was beginning to emerge — Just Pathetic at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles and Work?