Inside/Outside (1977). Senga Nengudi explores aspects of the human body in relation to ritual and spirituality. She uses water-filled vinyl bags, mud and sand, and generally seeks a spatial and weight balance.
the forms created by the vinyl bags remind me of polyps almost as though these organs that nengudi has created has formed some sort of disease or perhaps a growth.
I don’t get the feeling of connection to the human body or spirituality out of a piece that (though clams to be more natural with mud and sand) looks mostly like it’s made of synthetics.
There is a trend to speak excessively in pop culture today about spirituality-without ever having defined what it is. And this makes applying that quality to an art work even more nebulous. To attribute a particular quality to an object requires that the specific nature of the object be shown to express the abstracted quality; I don't see how this can be done without defining that abstract quality to begin with.
the forms created by the vinyl bags remind me of polyps almost as though these organs that nengudi has created has formed some sort of disease or perhaps a growth.
ReplyDeleteI don’t get the feeling of connection to the human body or spirituality out of a piece that (though clams to be more natural with mud and sand) looks mostly like it’s made of synthetics.
ReplyDeleteThere is a trend to speak excessively in pop culture today about spirituality-without ever having defined what it is. And this makes applying that quality to an art work even more nebulous. To attribute a particular quality to an object requires that the specific nature of the object be shown to express the abstracted quality; I don't see how this can be done without defining that abstract quality to begin with.
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