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
Sculpture dispenses with color, painting with the materiality of form.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
What this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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
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
Substance comprises all corporal materialities: instinctive needs, irrational movements, in a word, all actions where common sense is not a factor.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard
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