Interiorities: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Leonor Antunes, Henrike Naumann, Adriana Varejão

by Schneider, Anna
ISBN: 9783791359557
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Overview

An international coterie of emerging artists help articulate our interior lives.

In an age of selfies, over-posting, and public shaming, our true selves, can get completely subverted: historically, politically, and emotionally. The artists featured in this book tackle that conundrum through a fascinating variety of media. Njideka Akunyili Crosby makes vibrantly patterned paintings on paper that negotiate the complex cultural terrain of a life formed between two worlds: her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria. Inspired by photography, fashion, architecture, and design, as well as her own family history, Akunyili Crosby's works reflect her experience, and often feature domestic spaces that function as physical, conceptual and emotional points of arrival and departure. For Portuguese sculptor Leonor Antunes, the focus is on migration and the transformation of form and ideas beyond temporal and geographical spaces. The starting point for her elegant site-specific sculptures is the exploration of art, design, and architectural history. Adriana Varej o addresses the colonial history of Brazil in her visceral sculptures and paintings. She often uses the motif of the wall, the boundary between inside and outside, in her work.The omnipresence of the past also colors the work of trained stage designer Henrike Naumann, whose immersive installations engage the East-West German past and right-wing ideology. Naumann explores the mechanisms of radicalization and explores how they manifest themselves in space. Taken together, these works use the interior as a framework for multi-faceted identities. These artists eloquently demonstrate how physical and emotional interiors can provide retreat and shelter as well as the opportunity to change our social and political zeitgeist.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Schneider, Anna
  • ISBN: 9783791359557
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 11.20 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 176
  • Publication Year: 2020
Language: English