Mixed Race opens with another haunting evocation of his mother, "Every Day", sung as an oedipal duet with Riley.
Another is an evocation of books he has read whose characters and scenes are more real than reality.
Another hand-wrought evocation of the digital is a two-thirds-size sculpture of the artist (one of many self-portraits) made of sugar cubes, whose gentle and constant erosion suggests disintegrating pixels.
Dressing in bedding, seemingly otherwise unclothed, was apparently quite another: contemptible, an actual evocation of sex itself.
A cavity appears, containing a capsizing boat — an evocation of another refugee crisis, this one taking place right off the Croisette in the Mediterranean.
In all of this, McDonagh merged quotidian detail – local food brands such as Kimberley biscuits and Tayto crisps – with a heightened evocation of another rural Ireland unseen, or ignored, by the tourist board.
And Paul Buford's narrative wall hangings partake of a figurative tradition in African textiles but apply it to American subjects: one piece depicts the home of the black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar in Dayton, Ohio; another is a vivid evocation of musicians performing on a New Orleans street.
Cohen's films are all collages to one degree or another: Lost Book Found, his evocation of vanishing New York; Buried in Light, his harshly lyrical east European travelogue.
Another bracing comparison is the overall evocation of pale blue water, which fills the fan of Judy Mensch of Manhattan, contrasted with the more rugged, hallowed marine subject of rocks and sea drawn by Danielle Thompson of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Mr. Cohen's films are all collages to one degree or another: "Lost Book Found," his dreamlike evocation of vanishing New York; "Buried in Light," his harshly lyrical Eastern European travelogue; and "Instrument," his document of the band Fugazi, all layer contrasts of stock, of color, and of lighting to move back and forth between the objective and the subjective.
