The power of photography — and its centrality in
present aesthetic concerns — is that it confirms both ideas of art.
Not exact matches
The works
presented at The New Museum were less narrative, addressing more formal and
aesthetic concerns.
They
present an unsettling contradiction — between the
aesthetic appeal of the images and the profound ecological
concerns they expose.
Focusing on both
present and future, moving between
concern with microcosms and universes, this exhibition will resound as a polyphony of individual perspectives interwoven by different
aesthetic and cultural traditions.
These
concerns, along with a spare
aesthetic, and select iconography, have been
present from my earliest through my most current artworks.»
That said, the significance of Akerman's work for the
present moment is not merely a formal or medial matter, but is strongly connected to her programmatic interrogation of issues that
concern biography, gender, identity, and memory, all of which are framed against the backdrop of her groundbreaking exploration of the
aesthetic of everyday life.