These paintings reflect how one can impose
that through image construction and reference.
Not exact matches
Conversely the projected future is already exercising its influence on the present
through these
images, and by continuous interaction it is also affecting the
construction of revised
images of the future.
The film's design is a marvel of diverse locales,
images of space that look authentic, and worn ships that give a sense of their
construction (most notably in a dynamic sequence that has Kirk and his trusty engineer Scotty, played by Simon Pegg, racing
through their ship as its center of gravity changes).
In the opening sequence, an intricate
construction of sound /
image relationships, Maureen, alone at night, walks
through her brother's old country house, looking and listening for traces of his presence.
Carrying around a vision device — a makeshift
construction that allows him to see the world while at the same time reflecting the surroundings
through a mirror surface — the young man explores a natural environment reminiscent of a greenhouse or biosphere, while the film also alternates archival historical
images of ancient ruins.
The slideshow cycles
through pairs of
images presented on a pair of monitors, and these looping still photographs show the Hollywood icon self - consciously posing, reflecting, brooding, and generating a model for the
construction of identity
through images.
Gander is an inventive polymath, a creator of worlds and teller of tales, whose making takes forms as varied as a lecture series entirely based on «loose associations,» a nonlinear narrative of wildly disparate ideas and
images found and collected by the artist; re-creations of children's tent - forts sculpted in marble; the
construction of complex mechanisms to generate a gentle breeze that wafts
through a gallery; a conveyer belt carrying sculptures that can only be seen
through one window; or detailed designs for an art school that may never be realized.
While Glenn Ligon focuses on the
construction of «blackness» and «queerness» in his photographic rethinking of Robert Mapplethorpe's erotic
images, Iñigo Manglano - Ovalle explores the notion of identity
through the processes of genetic mapping in his DNA photographs.
Over and over again in the catalog, we read about Ligon's love for painting — de Kooning's Pirate (Untitled II)(1981) is a favorite, apparently — and how he, um, «opened up the semantic rules of identity and linguistic
constructions between object - text and
image - sign relations
through the use of photography and text based on the appropriation of language, sign, text, and speech as material for his painting practice.»
As A.i.A. senior editor William S. Smith pointed out in his essay on Michael Heizer (whose 1970 installation Actual Size: Munich Rotary is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art
through April 10) our April issue, «Land art was photogenic out of necessity...
images produced in tandem with the
construction of giant earthworks could greatly expand the works» aesthetic and conceptual range.»
With light passing
through the translucent collaged elements, the works reveal layers of
construction, while opaque elements obscure parts of the
image.
The new body of work plays on the
construction of place
through found
images, tokens, maps, postcards and travel guides.
The Queens Museum will present her most ambitious work to date, The Wandering Lake (2009 - 2017), a project that redefines the role of artist,
image, object and performance in the
construction of narratives
through an exhibition that integrates video projection, photography, sculpture, publication, and performance as one expansive body of work.
Thomas in her photograph of an
image of a window, Moments of Place IV, explores the depth and
construction of space within the picture frame while masterfully considering color and form and, in depicting an architectural detail and
through the work's placement in the gallery, draws attention to spacial relationships.
Bopape focuses on the aspect of «a walk
through the editing space», the space of the
image, that has to do with the performed situation and it's visual
construction.
Fortunately during his residency, Ingram, a queer artist originally from Jackson, Mississippi, got to work
through some ideas for his exhibition, Skin Thick, which uses «found
images and materials to question the process of identity
construction» with the Mexico City - based Perea.
The exhibition is structured in chapters whose themes are the man - eating outsider or non-human; the relationship with others and
construction of an individual and group identity
through a dual movement of incorporation and rejection; the body as an organism capable of transformation, and which feeds on and feeds others; eroticism and all - consuming passion; violence and horror; ritual and sacrifice; and
images from childhood, derived from tales and legends.
Each artist used their own signature medium to create works surrounding the themes of time, space and psychology: Futo Akiyoshi with minimal
images of spaces; Kouichi Tabata
through motion paintings; and Takahiro Ueda utilises naturally occurring phenomena with a series of
constructions built around quartz crystals.
In the work of Hito Steyerl (Munich, 1966) the
construction of the text and the editing of the
image expand the condition of the film essay, reflecting on and intervening in the systems
through which information circulates and the presentation and representation of the artwork.
Through these techniques, Adams examines the force of popular culture and the media, on the perception and
construction of self -
image.
Cracco works with an understanding of color theory's
construction of
images from three or four colors, but works
through these limitations by hand - mixing his palette to show a shrewd understanding of tone and hue.
Photographing modern cityscapes and man made spaces
through bird's - and worm's - eye perspectives and utilizing composite
construction, his
images destabilize the notion of photographic reality.
Fia Backström's work focuses on the fabric of our co-existence with and
construction of subjectivity
through the social life of
images.
As one walked around and under Provisero's stark projectile - shaped forms, poking
through walls or crashing into and then erupting out of the concrete floors, they conjured the
image of a scarred urban battlefield or of a
construction - site implosion.
Starting with
images of the river valley in its pristine state and moving
through the various stages of
construction, these photographs attempt to signal the project's inevitability by offering us a semblance of continuity, positioning the deconstruction of the landscape and
construction of the dam against the backdrop of the ancient Chinese landscape.
Her practice investigates the
construction and arrangement of time and document as revealed
through both the moving
image and painted still.
At Spelman College Museum of Art, Frazier's work is included within a nexus of works that visualize the
construction of the racialized and gendered body, primarily
through self - representation and
images of the domestic sphere.
The artist thus creates an exhibition situation, which — depending on the position and perspective of the viewer — opens new contexts and points of reference between the altogether seven works on view:
through overlapping and juxtaposition, fragmented
image details of architectural
constructions are transformed into new — rational and irrational — visual connections and associations.
Neshat, whose work critiques the cultural
construction of difference, fully turns her attention to American culture for the first time in this show and depicts the ambiguity of feeling for an outsider
through enigmatic
images, haunting encounters and mystified points of view in her film and photography.
The exhibition includes many of his series of
images of the Yosemite Valley, along with views of Alaska, Guatemala, urban panoramas of San Francisco, and his 1869 survey of the
construction of the Eastward bound Railroad
through California, Nevada and Utah.
Images and 3D
constructions are classical in execution and manipulated
through graphic arts...
Together and separately,
through these projects Walker Evans created a collective portrait of the Eastern United States during a decade of profound transformation — one that coincided with the flood of everyday
images, both still and moving, from an expanding mass culture and the
construction of a Modernist history of photography.
The artist has explored this conceptual discourse
through multiple series of work, deftly riding the line between the
construction of totally manufactured
images that bear the aesthetic of seemingly straightforward photographic
images and actual photographs that buzz with vibrant palettes almost too fantastic to be considered plausible.