This artist regularly investigates grim themes such as birth and death, stressing both the physical reality of the human body and its psychological value, using it to critique contemporary ideas of racial, sexual and
social identity deeply rooted in the history of all of us.
Not exact matches
Wolfe has chapters set in the neuroscience classroom interspersed among chapters tracing the
social and personal lives of Charlotte and her friends, and by this device Wolfe probes
deeply into the nature of personal
identity, free will, and the relation between the mind and the brain.
They disagree, of course, on the real existence of the personal, relational God, and so they disagree that personal
identity is, most
deeply, relational or
social.
With this understanding of our human nature, as emotional, amoral and egoistic, we must weigh alternative policies and approaches to
social organization, especially given the emotional and
deeply visceral nature of
identity issues.
For some, this question may only suggest that basic niceties or cordiality; however, for me this question aspires to get at the
deeply embedded
social identity dynamics that constitute much of our engagement.
On a larger scale, such as working in the areas of politics, activism or
social justice, this tendency is
deeply intertwined with our desire to identify with a certain set of ideals, or a range of complementary
identities.
Catalina's participation in two Alternative Spring Break programs - Inequalities in Urban Education (D.C.) and Community Organizing in the Favelas (Rio de Janeiro)- furthered her interest in the connections between built and
social infrastructure and compelled her to think
deeply about
identity and equity in education.
More specifically, the exhibition challenges some of the basic assumptions that are
deeply ingrained in our
social fabric about personal and public
identities.
The realities of poverty, the search for
identity, and the universal struggle for freedom,
social justice, and human dignity are depicted with a rare emotional intensity and a
deeply felt humanity.