Sentences with phrase «personal cabinets of curiosity»

Using these parameters the faculty members created personal cabinets of curiosity, or wunderkammer, which will be presented over the course of the exhibition.

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Fensterstock transforms the Atrium Gallery into a cabinet of curiosity that expands her interest in natural history and personal collections, principally Holophusicon, an eighteenth - century natural history and ethnographical museum in London, and American artist Robert Smithson's Mirror with Crushed Shells, created during an exploration on the beaches of Sanibel, Florida.

Like little Wunderkammer — cabinets of curiosities — the paintings manage to collect people and the objects that surround them (phones, shoes, luggage, food, furniture, art supplies) like a modern - day personal art diary version of Where's Waldo.

Also on view is a host of transportive ephemera, from photos and archival footage of the artist to his paint brushes and personal treasures, making this booth an enticing cabinet of curiosities.

These objects, which are loaded with personal and historical meaning, contribute to the overall suggestion of the exhibition — that is it is a post-colonial cabinet of curiosity.