Sentences with phrase «passive witness»

The artists in this show demonstrate empathy and familiarity for these figures, by either assuming the role as passive witness or taking an active role as collaborator.

One sees Ruscha's agency more readily in the prints, where in the photographs his cool, almost passive witnessing is more the point.

He was, however, no passive witness to the unfolding tragedy.

Although he apparently possesses the ability to move objects in classic poltergeist style, he's a passive witness for much of the time, a blank slate on which we can project our own experience of loss or those suggested by extensive use of the Kuleshov effect, a technique by which neutral expressions are given meaning through editing.

He is a passive witness, a scribe whose only job is to record the decisions God has already made.

From one day to the next, from one report to the next, she is a passive witness, then an activist, then victim, then perpetrator.

Beginning with a prescient analysis of a Hans Namuth photograph of the de Koonings and one of Krasner and Pollock in which the women are passive witnesses to the men's creativity, Landau examines the unique partnership that the de Koonings maintained during the 1940s and 1950s as they used themselves and each other as models.

This idea ties together all the exhibitions, whether it's Stop.Look.Listen, which is asking you as a viewer to become an active, rather than a passive witness to temporal works of art; or Joanne Tod's painting installation which is a memorial witnessing of what's taking place in Afghanistan; or Robert Hengeveld's slowly forming salt pile, which you have to spend vast amount of time with in order to see it actually take place.