materiality

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It includes, or at least invites, us—drawing us into the scene as our gaze continues upward into celestial immateriality, all courtesy of the materiality of paint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 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

Now, materiality in general is the principal through-line defining hugely diverse work made by the show’s 39 artists.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023

In other words, all things material seem to reduce to vibrations in and of the ether; the basis of all materiality is energy, motion, activity––mental things.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis