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….
The Nuances Of Artistic Self-Aggrandisement
By Chani Balmer.
Art was an invaluable tool of persuasion and self-presentation in the repertoire of a ruler, and was used as such to extraordinary effect again and again. Two rulers who wielded artistic representation in such a masterful way were Pope Urban VIII and King Louis XIV of France; both took full advantage of the Baroque style’s characteristic drama and monumentality, and its evocative, sensory nature to captivate an audience….
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