Sentences with phrase «sociopolitical themes»

He is also co-founder of the Jendela artist group whose members, in the early phase of their careers, surprised art audiences in Indonesia with works that eschewed sociopolitical themes or efforts to capitalize on the technical sophistication of realist painting.

Through his critical examinations of race, sexuality, and desire, Ligon offers a compelling and nuanced commentary on American history and sociopolitical themes.

This shift toward a social intention liberated Harsono's practice and allowed him to engage more directly with sociopolitical themes, including the legacy of Reformasi, and the rediscovery of minority ethnic identity within Indonesian culture.

Set in 1980, Rodriguez isn't afraid to explore a sociopolitical theme and blur the lines between fascism and liberalism.

Not exact matches

He stands apart from other writers on this theme because he treats it as a spiritual conflict, not merely a sociopolitical reality.

The themes — power structures, corporate wrongdoing, feminist rage — resonate in so many of 2017's sociopolitical developments, including Hayek's real - life account of facing Harvey Weinstein's abuse and rage.

Narrated by sociopolitical comic Hari Kondabolu, Sugarless Tea takes viewers through India and gives them enough emotional strength in only a few minutes to surely make them dwell on the themes.

Rather than pose a definitive historical trajectory, the exhibition embraces a ruminative and introspective approach, winding through time and place to touch on situations and themes ranging from the sociopolitical to the deeply personal, all through the lens of artistic observation.

The expressive drawings of the American artist Raymond Pettibon combine text and image to represent various themes of American sociopolitical culture with an emphasis on war and nationalism.

Informed by the international history of video art, the program traces the development of the medium in Israel and explores how artists have employed technology and material to examine the sociopolitical status quo, through themes such as the prominence of political conflict in mass media; the liberalization of the economy; and the impact of free market politics on Israeli culture.

In his mixed - media works, notions of war, spirituality and sociopolitical imperialism are reoccurring themes, which shrewdly parallel an equally repetitive contemporary pursuit of accumulation and power.

Odutola is an artist who works with themes of identity and the sociopolitical concept of skin color through portraiture.

Her self - portraits focus on the sociopolitical idea of skin color and explore the layers of blackness through personal and political themes.

While these two shows substantially differ in terms of themes, both continue a longstanding trend in which teeming international exhibitions are ultimately more about curators and their sociopolitical ideas than artists.

Organized around the themes of anti-disciplinary process, object temporality, and sociopolitical interpretations, the exhibition presents sculpture, site - specific installation, time - based work, and performance.

The answer is probably not to be found in exhibitions like All the World's Futures, this year's Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, whose overarching theme related to «the confluence of sociopolitical changes and radical historical ruptures.»

Marshall is the author of an important body of figurative work in which he explores the themes of identity — national, gender, and especially racial identity — in an attempt to contextualize the Afro - American experience in today's sociopolitical situation.