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
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
“Usually, shows of his work focus on his ethereality, like the ‘Monochromes’” — Klein’s single-color canvases — “but his show is anchored in the materiality and the tangible.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
The second point in the Thomistic doctrine is that corporeal substances are individuated by reason of their materiality.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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
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 Honoré de Balzac
And napery, silver, iridescent glass, all the materialities, were well worthy of so pretty a floral setting.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby
The arc of descent ends in materialities, and the arc of ascent ends in spiritualities.
From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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 George Spring Merriam
