Art and Activism: Creative Expressions of Protest
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The digital plays a significant role in much of the brand new textile work. Nakazawa turns digitally collaged images of artworks, typically by non- Western makers, into jacquard-woven textiles made in North Carolina on recycled cotton. She then adorns the material with hand-stitched components like shisha mirrors and sequins.
Another inventive approach entails questioning the authority and authenticity of archives by stating their inherent biases. Between 1989 and 2004, Walid Raad developed a set of each found and fabricated materials—documents, notebooks, pictures Art News, news clippings, interview transcripts, and videos—related to the Lebanese Civil…