Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt
with the abjection that surrounds him.
The mundane collides with the sublime, seduction combines
with abjection, seriousness pushes against humor.
Not exact matches
A neighbor takes her to the hospital and she returns hours later
with her wrists wrapped as dazzling white emblems of her
abjection.
«Again, and more radically,» she continues
with reference to Real violence, «the viewer is disgusted by the
abjection and attracted by its formal, technically complex artificial quality.»
From being greeted by Katharina Fritsch's disturbingly hip, pony - tailed Händler (Dealer)(2001),
with his one cloven - hoof, to Richard Prince's appropriated Marlboro Man photograph Cowboys, to David Hammons's arcing circle of glued together liquor bottles Untitled, to a huge room - full of Jim Shaw's profoundly weird collection of Thrift Store Paintings (1970 - ongoing), Unexchangeable does the remarkable task of restating the problem of art's paradoxical position between exclusivity and ordinary life, poised between rarity and
abjection.
Mana Contemporary's Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA) and Umm el — Fahem Gallery are pleased to present a private viewing of Textile — Territory — Text, a group exhibition that examines concepts of identity, belonging,
abjection, and exile in contemporary textile art works by Middle Eastern artists,
with a special one - night only performance.
But Hershman Leeson's avant - garde technologism is cut
with camp, horror, and feminized
abjection, undergirding an eerie feeling that interactivity is as much about capture and control as it is about activation and agency.
«Throughout a night without images but buffeted by black sounds; amidst a throng of forsaken bodies beset
with no longing but to last against all odds and for nothing; on a page where I plotted out the convolutions of those who, in transference, presented me
with the gift of their void — I have spelled out
abjection.
Through video, she examines painting and other visceral acts connected
with associations of desire and
abjection placed on female bodies in culture, and opposed to associations of power and virility placed on male bodies.
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His current body of work is a series of «painthings,» formal sculptural objects made exclusively of paint; these objects play
with ideas of representation in
abjection to conventional hegemony of the image.
Inspired by Julia Kristeva's 1980 essay «Powers of the Horrors: An essay on
Abjection», the show explores her notion of the abject and its «psychic origins and mechanisms of revulsion and disgust» emerging out of a confrontation
with death,
with violence,
with vulnerability of decay.
In the three years since her last solo exhibition at the gallery, Rafferty has been pushing forward her dialogue
with materials and strategies of making while continuing to engage themes that have been preoccupying her in her work to date: mid - to late - 20th - century media culture and the proliferation and subsequent impoverishment of imagery that has arrived in its wake; tropes of performance and comedy; and the theatricalized, often female, body,
with its simultaneous centrality and
abjection.
Two silk - screened posters — advertising pieces by Otto Muehl — and seven deliciously goofy kid - style images by Dieter Roth show Wool to be less of a painter and more of a designer of sassy graphics in which Midwestern cleverness rubs shoulders
with Eurotrash
abjection and both are passed off as urbane sophistication.
Comprised simply of a generic carpet encrusted
with disposable gloves, hardened spray foam, and general art studio detritus, Center transcends straightforward
abjection.
Pensato spikes her mix
with the black - and - white starkness of Christopher Wool and the defiant
abjection of Joan Jett's «I Hate Myself for Loving You.»
The shorthand term for it is
abjection, a deliberate immersion in the gross - out anarchy associated
with youth culture.
The show accompanies and expands on the London - based artist and writer's novella Virus, also published by Arcadia Missa, and follows the Stupart's concerns
with gender, language mutation and
abjection in a «virulent and embodied critique of sexism and structural violence in art and artworlds.»
Aspects of surrealism and
abjection are paired
with his anxious building of topographical textures
with acrylic paint; he insists that his figures seemingly remain in state of primordial becoming.
Yet where Kelley approached his abject bodies
with the calculated distance of a Freudian
with his test subjects, Pylypchuk enters the protocols of
abjection from within.