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materiality

[muh-teer-ee-al-i-tee] / məˌtɪər iˈæl ɪ ti /


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The artist’s eponymous 2025 sculpture, crowned with an array of Bantu knots, ties the entire show together, joining materiality, traditional cultural identity, and the outward-looking nature of the exhibition in a single work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

“There’s something that happens with real materiality, real construction, there’s an alchemy to it,” Hawley says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

In recent years, the centre has commissioned fourteen exhibitions by diverse international artists - including Adham Faramawy, Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye and Abi Palmer - which have explored themes from climate crisis to materiality.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025

Alys and Helaena fulfill their truest purpose outside the confines of mind and materiality, using the heart tree of Harrenhal's godswood.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024

The abyss which separates soul from body, absolute immateriality from absolute materiality, is infinite.

From God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

The arc of descent ends in materialities, and the arc of ascent ends in spiritualities.

From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Teachers, being purely ethereal she felt, never descended to the discussion of materialities.

From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Emily Calvin Blake

What this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The materialities were not invented in the interest of righteousness; that there is more righteousness in the world because of them than there, was before, is hardly demonstrable, I think.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) by Albert Bigelow Paine

There is something about an empty room, empty except of memories, but containing nothing besides, no materialities, no certainties as to the future, which is intimidating to one who stops and thinks.

From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Harold M. Brett


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