With a focus on artists working predominantly in film, video, photography and installations, Campagne Première organizes thematic exhibitions that
question modes of representation and address the conditions of the artwork «s production.
Not exact matches
Fictive Kin presents works by three contemporary artists who all construct photographic tableaux, and are united by their cultivation
of modes of seeing that
question conventions behind the photographic
representation of three - dimensional objects.
Gordon Parks: A Choice
of Weapons shares its title with Parks» 1966 autobiography and this exhibition aims to draw out critical
questions concerning civil responsibility, human rights and
modes of representation.
His works
question any assumed differences between abstraction and
representation, between
modes of presentation... Welling's photographs are objects in themselves, beautiful compositions that also gloss and comprise a history
of photographic practices.
In his multifaceted body
of work that investigates prevailing
modes of representation in contemporary art, Brandon Lattu
questions the dynamics between the work and the audience.
The content
of her work meanwhile
questions conventional
modes of filmmaking: linear narrative is passed over for a circular approach, and recurrent themes — investigations
of time, duration, and the act
of seeing — favor visual explorations instead
of traditional
representation.
The striking images highlight the struggle
of African American citizens, foregrounding key
questions of civil responsibility, human rights and
modes of representation.
No subject was safe from their intuitive and enigmatic lens, from the myth
of the artist, the role
of mass media, and the relationship between the body and identity, to
questions of gender and sexual
representation, and perhaps most famously, the HIV / AIDS activism
of the 1980's, a
mode of critique that the group were pioneers
of during an era
of intense repression and governmental silence.
Mathieu answers all
of these
questions by freely associating things,
modes of representation and languages.
Mercer Union recently hosted two challenging photo exhibitions (May 3 — May 28) that incorporate image and text to
question values and attitudes in language and myth, and
modes of representation.
Those enigmatic and alluring black female figures with their backs turned or their faces out
of frame came to stand for a generation's
mode of looking and
questioning photographic
representation.
Absent any
representations or appeal, the
mode of hearing is settled, subject to any change
of circumstances which requires the hearing chairman to revisit the
question of composition.