Samuel Nartey's cell phone-shaped coffin, built for a 2008 exhibition, references this unusual custom and acknowledges modern Ghanaians' preoccupation with mobile phones.
The title of the exhibition references a term coined by Australian anthropologist William Stanner to illustrate Indigenous people's circular conceptualization of time, which weaves together past, future, and present.
The title of the exhibition references a term coined by Australian anthropologist William Stanner to illustrate Indigenous people's circular conceptualisation of time, which weaves together past, future, and present.
According to the museum, the title of the work and this exhibition references a Japanese idiom that relates to the process of rejuvenation: an octopus can chew off a damaged tentacle in times of desperation and grow back a new one in its place.
Craig-Martin: Well, they were not paintings, they were constructions, and they were things that I fabricated... they were made objects, and so... when I wanted to I remade them, or when there was an exhibition with reference to early work, if I hadn't been able to remake them I wouldn't have been able to refer to those early works.
The title of the exhibition makes reference to the slang that's become a part of a global daily internet language, which Sabb says is often inspired by black American youth culture.
"The exhibition layout references domestic space through interior design choices and feng shui principles," she adds, giving a generous shortcut to an exhibition that easily requires multiple viewings.
The exhibition title references an early Baldessari work of the same name from 1966-68, an off-white canvas with the phrase literally painted in black, capital letters, and was explicitly selected by the artist himself.
Titled Afteur Pasteur, an homage to the microbiologist who discovered microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the exhibition uses references to bacteria and microbes as unlikely lenses to examine larger cultural and historical ideas.
Next to the trailer, in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, is an exhibition of drawings, reference books and other materials that went into the construction and design of Mr. Villinski's mobile home.
