The globalization of the contemporary art market is a driving force behind the production and consumption of art from emerging markets, particularly in previously underrepresented regions, known as the Global South. Globally, artists from post-colonial nations have surfaced and …
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In recent decades, attention to textile art has flourished. The growth of contemporary studies committed to revising fiber’s hierarchical categorization represents a discursive turn heavily weighted within feminist inquiry. The interrelation between textile techniques and constr…
Through her mystically infused, minimalistic sculptures, Iranian-born, London-based artist Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 ) has continued the trend of abstract spiritually in contemporary art. However, the theology that she represents is a mixture of her own creation, taking inspirat…
Hayv Kahraman is most widely known for her large-scale paintings of pale women with skin like silk and soft clouds of dark black hair. She often draws on her experiences as an émigré from Iraq to represent the challenges that surface as a result of one's identity. Having observe…
This project analizes the use of the Arabic script in Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance (1988) and Kutlugˇ Ataman's Animated Words (2003) to understand the variety of interpretations made possible to audiences familiar and unfamiliar to Arabic. These artists' roles as Middle Ea…
This dissertation identifies a kind of feminist architecture that constructs physical as well as conceptual space within the constraints of the status quo. I focus on three contemporary artists who challenge supposedly universal or neutral spatial constructions, engaging the arc…
The last three decades have seen the Southern Mexican city of Oaxaca evolve to become an autonomous centre for the creation and promotion of contemporary art on state, national and international levels. The present research's original contribution to knowledge is the analytical …
Today, a growing number of Pakistani artists have embraced the nation's perceived visual languages and political, social, and cultural history to interrogate and unpack Pakistan's contemporary society and identity. The fruits of this shifting and mixing are works of art that tur…
This is a project exploring camouflage and multifocality as a practice and theory based research, reflecting the mental state of disappearance that develops into multifocal existence, in the cultural context. The practice element consists of an installation, composed of four con…
The veil is a historically constructed site, a fixed sign used in Euro-America to conveniently and clearly dress the borders between east and west. Recent disciplines like visual and cultural studies, Third World feminism, and postcolonialism have challenged this assumption posi…
Over the last several decades numerous scholarly articles and books have been published on Moroccan art forms. Yet, these studies have consistently examined Morocco's traditional works or its older forms of artistic practices. Specifically, Morocco's ceramics objects and textile…
The dissertation is a case study of the Chinese-born, globally working contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang. My exploration of Cai Guo-Qiang’s career building from the period of 1986 to 2008 traces his migration from China to Japan to the U.S., paying attention to the ways in which…
As the devastating effects of the Anthropocene become ever more acute, contemporary artists are increasingly concerning themselves with ecology: the study of relations between organisms and their environments. In this thesis I examine several projects that address these critical…
The U.S. Census Bureau defines “rural” as “any population, housing, or territory NOT in an urban area.” At the most basic level, then, the rural is defined by what it is not. The definition comes with real consequences for rural places in the U.S., which receive disproportionate…
Contemporary art from China has gain international and domestic attention not only for its commercial success, but also for the related activities in various social sectors, with the unprecedented economic growth in recent decades. The complexities of distinctive criteria, toget…
For as long as I can remember, I have struggled with understanding who I am. What makes me is something I try to make sense of through art. When I started working on this my graduation show, the idea behind it was to make a portrait of the Mexico I know, but when the pandemic hi…
The following thesis is an artist’s wandering reflection on their photographic practice. The artist, a recent Master of Fine Art graduate, explores topics in visual culture, photography, art history, identity, and nostalgia. Formatted in short and non-sequential chapters, each s…
This research is concerned with the appropriation of personal photographs within contemporary art practice. The scope of the investigation ranges from the study of history and theory of photography to the making of experimental artworks with vernacular photographic artefacts and…