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

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

That it has its own especial materiality seems to be indicated by the fact that in the Fang, Bakĕle, and other tribes the same word “nsisim” means not only soul but also shadow.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill