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
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
Mortality, materiality, and destructive forces, such as sin, disease, and death, mortals virtually name substance; but these are the substance of things not hoped for.
From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker
"With the great, one's thoughts and manners easily become great; ... what this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities," says Emerson.
From Famous American Statesmen by Bolton, Sarah Knowles
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
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
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
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 Brett, Harold M.
