Untitled (Debris) creates a place to
reflect on the destruction halfway across the world that usually only circulates as images and headlines but does little to move us.
Not exact matches
Lent is a good season to
reflect on the givens of life, and how denying those givens inevitably leads to unhappiness, sorrow, and even self -
destruction.
I believe this to be a change of historic importance, and that the sooner we recognize this change and begin to
reflect on its implications, the less the danger of self -
destruction.
Conveying Israel's vulnerability becomes an intellectual exercise which requires an imaginative leap totally unnecessary in the case of clear images of
destruction devoid of context, bereft of explanation (which is not to say that those images do not
reflect true suffering by the local population
on the other side).
As the landscape becomes weirder around them, the explorers begin to feel and
reflect those changes in their own minds and bodies; so too does the audience as they are taken
on a bizarre journey that examines the fine line between creation and
destruction.
For Chun, each work has become a window to
reflect on the history of human life and
on - going conflicts of modern man, nature and the drive of materialism, endless competition, conflicts and
destruction.
By utilizing Disaster Relief Volunteering as field research, Neumann
reflects on the loss of space, the
destruction of environment, urban civilization, and the temporal all while toying with the ideology of time and the effects of technology.
«The 10th Gwangju Biennale
reflects on this spiral of violent or symbolic events of
destruction or self -
destruction — setting fire to the home one occupies — followed by the promise of the new and the hope for change,» wrote Morgan in the introduction to the exhibition.
The color yellow persists as paint residue
on the excavator heads and is
reflected again in the yellow - hued banded calcite, which, though mined by similar machinery through a process of
destruction, now rests in perfect equilibrium in the grip of the sculpture — an essential part of the work.
Serena Perrone employs various techniques ranging from printmaking and drawing to photography and writing to
reflect on personal mythologies, examine differing forms of nostalgia, recount stories of
destruction, regeneration, transition, enchantment and disenchantment, and capture images of the synchronistic and uncanny ways that magic and wonder are encountered in liminal spaces.
Artists like Margit Anna, whose dreamlike paintings
reflect the trauma of the Holocaust, and Xanti Schawinsky, whose Faces of War series (1942) was influenced by the
destruction and militarism of World War II, draw
on transformative personal experiences.