Tag: travel
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Kei Ito
Kei Ito is a Japanese installation artist, conceptual photographer, and sculptor. Ito’s work is deeply rooted in the bombing of Hiroshima, which his late grandfather survived. Despite the generations that passed, the event inflicted heavy trauma upon the remainder of his family. As a result, a deep sense of intergenerational loss underlies much of Ito’s…
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Cassi Nomada
Cassi Nomada is a Mozambican painter currently living and working in Italy. Borrowing from magical realism, folklore, and photographic film-stills, Nomada’s artwork straddles dual ideologies to confront the art historical canon. What is art historical canon? Generally, the canon is the group of artworks, artists, and styles that historians and institutions have traditionally considered the…
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Lalla Essaydi
Lalla Essadyi is a Moroccan photographer and artist known for her feminist portraits. Essaydi grew up in Morocco, but she currently lives in the United States. Here, she explores her complex identities. Why “identities”? To Essaydi, it’s important to think of identity as a state of being many things at once. Refusing to restrict yourself…
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Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler is an African American fiber artist. Butler is known for her revolutionary approach to quilting, transforming a formerly ‘craft’ medium to the realm of ‘fine art’. Butler’s work stems from quilting traditions of African American communities. This tradition has a long and difficult origin; many African American women would quilt to supplement the…
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