Sentences with phrase «questioning photographic 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.

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By relating the notion of the staycation to the screensaver, Tuppen questions the capacity for the screensaver, often a photographic representation of a dreamt - of elsewhere, photoshopped to a high level of artifice, to satisfy the necessity for escape from daily routine.

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.

From Andy Warhol to Richard Prince, these artists open up the question of what it means to utilize the photographic medium for representation, as well as in the creation of form.

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.

Instead Shirreff mines the vexed questions of how images mean and matter to us, and how we negotiate the distance between an object and its photographic representation, or between a photographic representation and our memory of what it shows.

Rather than attempting a definitive history, the publication posits an alternative approach to the myriad questions and debates associated with representation, presenting its technological history as inextricable from the social history of media, and staging this through the complex and multivalent relationship between the photographic image and the body, whether it be the body of the viewer, or that of the depicted.

His film stages a confrontation between the photographic image and the forms of representation that it supplanted and raises questions as to what comes next.

Past artists who have created work for Rivington Place's window include Philomena Francis who used piped black treacle in her artwork mo» lasses III to raise questions about identity and viewing the black female body, and most recently Nilbar Güres» Beekeeper, a photographic composition examining representations of femininity and cultural identity.

Instead they mine the vexed questions of how images mean and matter to us, and how we negotiate the distance between an object and its photographic representation, or between a photographic representation and our memory of the things it represents.

The exhibition — which contextualizes drawing as part of her broader consideration of photographic and film representation — shows how drawing can revisit, question and change images used for personal, cultural and national identity.