Sentences with phrase «own cultural hybridity»

From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.

Born in Nigeria, relocated to the UK; centered solely in drawing; large - scale drawings explore the malleability of space, politics of play, and cultural hybridity as a new nation; awards include Fulbright Scholar Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2012 — 2013); participates in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions Program; Queens Museum artist - in - residence.

Shiokava is Japanese Brazilian and his work embodies a cultural hybridity.

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.

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.

Haji Omar has long used artwork to explore sociopolitical subjects such as cultural hybridity and the transformation of language, and to visually address philosophical and physiological challenges of the human condition.

Since that time, post-colonial thinking, globalization, and an awareness of our own cultural hybridity have deepened ideas about African culture; the exoticizing and demeaning implications of Primitivism have made it untenable.

Dutch wax textiles have been a signature of his work for many years, and represent the cultural hybridity central to his practice and the rich complexity of post-colonial cultures.

[26] The garments she designs to be worn in her video works filmed in her installations are often fusions of her various influences, attesting to her views of cultural hybridity.

Working across installation, sculpture, and photography, Accra - based German / Ghanaian artist Zohra Opoku often incorporates textile and design - based elements to explore the traditions of West Africa, as well as the politics of her cultural hybridity.

In an interview for Huffington Post she described her attitude towards cultural hybridity: «Although cultures do have important political utility, the idea that cultures develop in vacuums is false.

Her large scaled drawings are part of an ongoing, non-linear narrative called aliens, hybrids and ghosts that explore space, play, and reveal cultural hybridity.

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.

Born in Brazil, Shiokava is ethnically Japanese, and his work embodies a cultural hybridity played out in the distinction between his wood and macramé totems, which he says represent, respectively, the Japanese and Brazilian sides of himself.

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.

These remarkable examples of cultural hybridity and fused identity reflect the oeuvre that Zhang has built over his long career.

From her In - Between Worlds series, a group of images that explore, perform and confront issues of cultural hybridity.

She is interested in exploring non-dominant histories, cultural hybridity, and the deconstruction of power structures.

By this time, of course, the transatlantic trade had already urged the transmission of black cultures around the western world, creating the instances of what would later be called «cultural hybridity,» occurring as a direct result of slavery and its legacies.

Like amanze, examining the revolutionary and utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity, Saya Woolfalk uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.

Drawing from the unparalleled collection donated to VMFA by preeminent Hasui collectors René and Carolyn Balcer, the exhibition exemplifies the creativity and cultural hybridity Hasui's work embodies.

Hou Hanru's prolific curatorial work addresses contemporary practice and the conditions of artists living in the diaspora from the perspective of cultural hybridity.

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

The best works and talks were ones in which geographical and cultural hybridity shone through in all its messiness.

It will map out aesthetic and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the dispersal of peoples of Black African descent, and will also present key moments within the cultural politics of the Black Atlantic.

The triennial exhibition, spread across seventeen venues in New Orleans, will feature seventy - three 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,» according to an announcement from the event's organizers.

Continuing his interest in cultural hybridity, the subject of these biting images are refugees... Continue reading →

Artists like Carlos Castro Arias, William Cordova and María Elvira Escallón bring symbols from the past into the present, collapsing temporalities to signal the cultural hybridity and diversity of Latin America's people, and a modern vernacular forged by shared co-existence.

Not exact matches

The beauty that can emerge from cultural transfer and hybridity surely will be the overarching effect of these exhibitions, along with the particular political power of each artist's work.

Her work often provides a portal into a third space [1], one of hybridity, where Crosby intersects her cultural experiences in Nigeria and the West to diminish the limitations of geography.

The performance will explore cultural and spiritual hybridity to which the Haitian musicians» identities add a new layer.

But in today's economy, the gallerist as cultural entrepreneur and arbiter exercises a professional hybridity far removed from Kahnweiler's day.

Complementing the exhibition are works with themes of mapping, globalism, hybridity, cultural identity, and the tension between sacred and secular.

His work explores concepts of cultural and historical hybridity ultimately attempting to reexamine Western art history from a Guatemalan perspective.

Focused on identity formations, hybridity and green urban spaces, Bonilla emphasizes upcycling found materials like bottle caps to reveal cultural nuances.

digital collages that explore racial and cultural ambiguity through visual hybridity, like the work of each artist in this exhibition, demonstrate that late 20th - century predictions of the end of traditional fine «art» practice at the dawn of digital culture were simply wrong.

All of these artists have succeeded by avoiding what cultural historian Ian Buruma calls the «trap of hybridity,» in which self - conscious efforts to merge different traditions produce little more than superficial decoration hiding ill - digested ideas.

I'm really interested in hybridity from a cultural perspective, but I chose to focus on inter-species hybridization because I didn't want it to be merely about the fusion and mixture of culture, but also about the transparency of boundaries between things we identify as whole in and of themselves.

He is known for his sculptural re-contextualization of everyday objects exploring concepts of sculptural, cultural, and historical hybridity.

One of the most thought - provoking catalogue narratives is Ligon's «Blue Black,» which discusses the challenges Ofili has faced (and continues to face) in attempting to transition from centralizing concerns about identity, «race,» and social exclusion toward more nuanced and entangled representations focused on cultural syncretism, creolization, and hybridity.

Lorraine O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and female subjectivity; her Biennial work is an installation of photographs and photo - collage that deals with issues of appropriation and cultural identity.

By altering popular sports objects, he explores concepts of sculptural, cultural and historical hybridity.

Wolf writes that, «Thomas wants to build his own take on the subject by combining... images, riffing on this idea of racial, cultural, and socioeconomic hybridity...» [Note: I revisit hybridity as polyculturalism on the Art21 blog.]

Rachel Wolf highlights a connection to «hybridity» that I think is part of the emergence of postcolonial discourse and critiques of cultural imperialism.

Since the 1990s, Escobar's work explores concepts of cultural and historical hybridity.

Presence, the featured work, is rooted in explorations surrounding cultural dislocation, disconnection and hybridity.

Over the course of more than three decades, artist and cultural critic Lorraine O'Grady has won acclaim for her installations, performances and texts addressing the subjects of diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity.