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Eye of the Beholder – The Extremeness of Vikky Alexander

She became known for her insightful investigations of the found and appropriated image, the artificial representation of enclosed nature, and the cultural seduction of both space and place. It was almost as if she was holding up a dark mirror to our beauty- obsessed era and showing us who we really…
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Uncanny Kingdom
The Enigmatic Art of Mowry Baden

(Texte) Donald Brackett
Ever since the French invented a mechanical device called the camera in about 1840, visual artists have been liberated from the tyranny of mere pictorial representation. Likewise, sculptors have been offered the opportunity to leave behind the pedestal in favour of incorporating everyday life into…
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Forest of Memory: the Provocative Art of Dana Claxton

(Texte) Donald Brackett
As a person of mixed heritage, Claxton is practically a living mirror of the nation superimposed over the nations that existed here in the first place, especially through her unique family history of Indigenous displacement and migration. It could be that her fascination with the hybrid nature of…
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