materiality
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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
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
The 34-year-old often engages with the concept of ever-shifting time and materiality as a tool for preserving and archiving realities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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
And again, he observes, “the doctrine of necessity is the immediate result of the materiality of man, for mechanism is the undoubted consequence of materialism.”
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
His clothes were a necessary envelope, to which he paid not the slightest attention, for his eyes looked too high among the clouds to concern themselves with such materialities.
From A Daughter of Eve by Balzac, Honoré de
Abner accepted his environment; after all, he might force the conversation to soar far above the mere materialities.
From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake
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 Paine, Albert Bigelow
His New Year's message to the Legislature opened with a businesslike discussion of the State's finances and other materialities.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
And napery, silver, iridescent glass, all the materialities, were well worthy of so pretty a floral setting.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
