The Descent Into Abstraction Is Easy.
By Petra Bogle
No image is truly abstract. No such image has or ever will exist. There are degrees of abstraction, ranging from what has some representational form, and discernable meaning to the closest to true abstraction, where the elements of an image convey nothing but their own innate visual qualities, and the meaning discernable only through subsidiary material….
Mona Hatoum’s Home: A Fear Of The Everyday
By Monica Wang.
When the ‘everyday’ is unfamiliar to you, when in fact a sense of displacement arises from your surroundings, the ‘everyday’ starts to speak less about the banal and more about alienation. Curators David A. Ross and Nicholas Serota have hypothesised that to look at the everyday is to “recognize that in fact it’s a reflection of a mind awake and a mind asleep”….
Social Concoctions And Educational Potential
By Marion Breinhorst.
The role of social art has undergone exponential development following technological advances and changes within rights of minority groups. Contemporary artists like Luca Frei and Suzanne Lacy are able to incorporate design, networks, and education into their social and installation practices which can now be analysed using a critical language appropriate to the works….
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