Sentences with phrase «of cultural displacement»

Artist Statement As a culturally displaced artist myself, I have been drawn to the theme of cultural displacement and identity and to social psychological and cross-cultural studies that are heavily influenced by immigrant experiences and by the interaction between people and space.

Suh, who lives and works in London, New York and Seoul, has continued to express feelings of cultural displacement through sculptures and immersive installations of domestic architecture and household items.

Her current research focuses on a redefinition of contemporary art history through postcolonial theories and the genealogy of cultural displacement; she also works on feminist art and theory of the 1970s.

Aeronautical and astronomical science, deep - sea exploration, and extreme climatology are but some of the thematic arenas out of which Strachan creates performative allegories that tell of cultural displacement, human aspiration, and mortal limitation.

The exhibition draws upon the Wolfonian's collection to explore issues of identity — personal, corporate and national — as well as the impact of cultural displacement on the history of design and the role of commercial art in the modern city.

In the accompanying lesson (see link above), students explore the themes of cultural displacement, human rights, and resilience through classroom discussions.

It's an arthouse picture for people who don't frequent arthouses — a tale of cultural displacement so sanitized and swooningly romantic that film buffs could recommend it to their parents and grandparents without hesitation.

In touching upon issues of cultural displacement and substance abuse, Sen imbues the film with an undeniable sense of naturalism that comes with casting locals from the area.

Not exact matches

Statistical decline, cultural marginalization and religious displacement from the center is the recent story of the mainline churches.

After reviewing the theories of Malinowski, Freud, Girard and others on the role of fatherhood, Steinmetz uses the story of Oedipus to illustrate the problem; a father wants to insure immortality by passing on all of his «self» (both material and cultural) to an heir, but in so doing insures his own mortality and displacement.

The political import of interrogating the conception and representation of rape in film and film criticism is flagged in Russell's introduction, as she notes that to dismiss the question of rape «is to collude with the displacement and obscuring of violence that naturalizes it in our cultural imaginary» (p. 2).

If we're going to get to the heart of hate speech in America today, we must remember that significant elements of our cultural history were built on inequity — from the founding of the country and displacement of indigenous populations to the Civil War and slavery.

Guirguis seeks to address problems of displacement, environmental destruction, and cultural and historical memory loss through conversations with local artists engaged in political activism, and through workshops with local Santa Monica youth and adult participants.

Guirguis seeks to address problems of displacement, environmental destruction, and cultural and historical memory loss in her work, as well as through conversations with local artists engaged in political activism, and workshops with local Santa Monica youth and adult participants.

Transcending ideas appropriated to loci of analogous geopolitical status, Socratous» visual language surveys notions of displacement, national and cultural identity, socio - economic and historical discourse to challenge the topical subject of migration and the shifting ideologies recurring in today's political habitat.

In recent projects Ai has addressed the international refugee crisis, the theme of displacement of particular relevance due to his being raised in exile after his father, the Chinese poet Ai Qing, was denounced during the Cultural Revolution.

This exhibition is the result of a three - year ongoing collaboration exploring cultural displacement within an urban environment.

The Zwirner show, in particular, addresses Murillo's feelings of geographical and cultural displacement (he emigrated to the U.K. from Colombia at the age of 10) and, to a lesser degree, the potentially life - transforming side effect of his rapid ascent (he's not yet 30, and is only a few years removed from his former, low - key life as an office cleaner and a gallery installer.)

Led by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Prospect.4 brings together 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's Tricentennial.

Earlier audio - visual installations range from Baltimore (2003), which, in part through the stylisations of black action movies from the 1970s, looks at the histories, divisions and intersections of black and white cultures, through to his trilogy comprising True North (2004), Fantôme Afrique (2005) and Western Union: Small Boats (2007), all of which deal with themes of voyaging and cultural displacement on both a local and global scale.

At the age of fourteen, Evans moved back to Lagos where she experienced a sense of displacement and begun to reflect upon her identity which was marked by cultural hybridity.

the series of sculptural works reflects suh's continued investigation of themes surrounding cultural displacement and the co-existence of cultural identities, along with the perception of our surroundings and how one is able to construct memory from a space.

the almost weightless wire structures are an extension of his study of themes surrounding cultural displacement, the establishment of relationships within new environments, and memories as both physical and metaphorical manifestations.

Isaac Julien is a filmmaker and installation artist whose work investigates a range of issues, from black and gay identity, desire and sexuality to cultural displacement and global financial crisis.

Each work in the exhibition carries a unique and often personal history of human rights violations, from massacres to ethnic cleansing, cultural displacement to missing persons.

Splitting his time between Paris and his native Cluj, Mircea Cantor makes work that centers around themes of cultural history, memory, and displacement, echoing his upbringing in Romania during its tumultuous transition from state socialism to liberal democracy.

Yinka Shonibare MBE's new site - specific installation explores the impact of immigration on all aspects of British culture and considers notions of territory and place, cultural identity, displacement and refuge.

He has produced exhibitions nationally and internationally that explore themes of displacement and cultural memory.

The painting's surface is used to transform energies and refabricate the body with suggestions of contamination, connectivity and displacement, reflecting Kocsis» cultural history as a Hungarian, Romany and Canadian.

Murillo frequently invokes his cultural heritage in his practice and broader issues of migration, sub-localities, and displacement inform many of his works.

Influenced by the cultural milieu of inter-ethnic relations in Indonesia, Leonard Suryajaya's work explores intricate and complicated layers of selfhood in the context of cultural background, intimacy, sexual preference, and personal displacement.

The list, put together by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, (of the Nasher Museum in Durham North Carolina), includes 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, and will address themes of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity.

Having recently completed a Master's course at Christie's Education in Modern and Contemporary Art, her thesis focuses on themes of cultural hybridity and displacement.

Now for his solo show at OUTLET, Berman brings us splices of artistic cultural influence from Japanese Ukiyo - e prints to Aztec myths, with an interplay between fact, memory and fiction, reflecting upon his own history of displacement and relocation.

This push - pull relationship between audio and raw materials references contemporary experiences of displacement in connection to the instability of current global political, social, economic, and cultural climates.

«Non-Western» denotes to a broad realm including terrestrial references as well as cultural ties; therefore this exhibition limits the term to the artists who have connections to the broad geography of the non-West but who speak of a certain kind of displacement, immigration, or a voyage due to their experiences.

The works show my attempt to present the adaptive aspect of cultural identity symbolized by international airplanes, as it is altered and expanded through cultural displacement in a global nomadic culture.

Underlined by the concept of displacement, the show encourages a dialogue on differences in societal and cultural values, notions of domesticity, and the impact of globalisation.

In «The Mountain Without a Shadow» themes of displacement and cultural heritage permeate Anja Marais» work.

Inspired by the Kongos» (of the Democractic Republic of the Congo) power figure nkisi nkondi, Destierro (Displacement, 1998 - 99) represents the spirit of the Cuban people who awakens in order to make good on the promise of revolution that has yet to happen; even without this specific cultural context, the artwork haunted me as a symbol of a popular consciousness, political betrayal, and a building hunger for change.

Through a succession of photographic series and more recently video works, Meera has questioned and interrogated cultural, physical, geographical, and emotional ideas of displacement and suspension.

Schendel's early experience of cultural, geographic and linguistic displacement is evident in her work, as is her interest in religion and philosophy.

The screen printing workshop and POCI Figure Drawing class provide two examples of the ways Electric Machete carries out its stated mission of «[intervening] in cultural displacement and racial inequalities by offering alternative spaces, counter narratives and community building opportunities.»

Alina and Jeff Bliumis's work concerns the politics of community, cultural displacement, migration and national identity.

Pipo Nguyen - duy's photographic work analyzes cultural displacement within the contexts of immigration and emigration.

Both artists create work that draws from their experiences of social and cultural displacement as first generation North Americans.

Her practice, which comprises drawings, works on paper, textile design, photography and printmaking, attests to her understanding of cultural hybridity, belonging and displacement.

In this exhibition, Purcell examines issues of migration, cultural displacement and the socio - political constructs that form / transform identity and links them to a globalized economic system.

Iraqi - born artist Hayv Kahraman's achingly beautiful paintings weave stories around female identify and sexuality amid the harsh backdrop of forced migration, displacement and cultural assimilation.

Civil Society, 2008, an affecting three - channel video by Michelle Dizon, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, directly addresses cultural displacement in a narration that accompanies devastating images of the 1992 Los Angeles riots as well as footage of the 2005 uprisings in the suburbs of Paris.