The individual works are imbued with both the uncertainty of
our sociopolitical moment as well as the seductive quality of consumerism and physical attraction.
Rather than responding to specific events, Mark's installation points to how a seemingly distant battle has continued to resonate for more than 130 years, including our current
sociopolitical moment.
As I wrote in my review, Schneemann's depiction of the female body as «contested, controlled and imprisoned» resonated in our dangerous
sociopolitical moment.
, Schneemann's depiction of the female body as «contested, controlled and imprisoned» resonated in our dangerous
sociopolitical moment.
Sometimes it takes the right
sociopolitical moment for an artist's work to land its critique.
For educators, explaining
this sociopolitical moment presents a unique challenge of how to present political situations without too much bias.
Not exact matches
But these male and female bodies with which we are concerned are living at this historical
moment and in the present
sociopolitical context.
Pynchon's books happen at
moments of profound cultural and
sociopolitical change, only half - understood by the players.
In My American Dream, his first solo museum exhibition, artist Keith Mayerson offers a distinctive view of the American Dream at a critical
moment in our
sociopolitical landscape.
Like Young, Bradford represented his nation at last year's Venice Biennale and, in what was something of a monumental year for the American, unveiled Pickett's Charge, a suitably monumental suite of paintings (collectively measuring more than 100 linear metres) that reinterpreted one of the defining
moments of the American Civil War (the subject of an 1883 cyclorama by French painter Paul Philippoteaux, itself reinterpreted in Bradford's work) in a work of cut, torn and scraped layers that reflects on the complexities of history, its interpretation and its impact upon the present
sociopolitical climate in the US.
Practitioners will talk about what they're most interested in at the
moment, including the artists and the
sociopolitical contexts that are shaping practices now.
The last decade of the twentieth century marked a brief, significant
moment of intense, rapid
sociopolitical, economic and cultural transformation, particularly for women, a group historically marginalized and overlooked.
Artistic change paralleled
sociopolitical upheaval around the globe, and these seismic shifts reach to the present
moment.
We are in a
moment when the art world needs reminding that there are pressing
sociopolitical issues which innumerable artists are grappling with, but which rarely make it onto the apolitical auction block.