Misapprehended - Fall 2023 - Visual Arts

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Fall 2023 Visual Culture: REPRESENT!: Misapprehended ELIAS GHOSN Misapprehended, 2023 Video Art, 6:21 In this video titled “Misapprehended”, the viewer is confronted to a white background and snippets of different videos that get revealed in a choreographed dance of geometrical shapes. The video begins with an interview between Pierce Morgan and the artist Ye that is clearly audible. However, shortly thereafter, more and more videos appear making it harder to listen and understand any of the particular subjects at play. The viewer is then exposed to a carefully curated selections of videos that point to conflicting viewpoints where dialogue fails to translate into a harmonious conversation and rather escalates into loud arguments and at times violence. The video ends with an actual video filmed by the artist of a group of insects that showed up in a branch of his cayenne pepper plant. The artist then cut the branch, placed it in a jar and filmed what seems to be a confrontational encounter even among insects, which comes to show that no matter the location, language or species that inhabit this planet, conflict and confrontation seems to be innate to any living organism. 18
Juror: Enrique Fernández Cervantes ALEXANDRA GREEN Your Face Hurts Me Too, 2022 Soft Sculpture, 17” x 17” x 9” My father’s career in cultural anthropology gave me an unorthodox childhood. He hosted his international colleagues at home, and I fostered pseudo-familial relationships with them. Instead of cultural appropriation, my work is the intersection of the academic study of anthropology and a celebration of these cultural experiences from my childhood. When I work on my sculptures, I can reinterpret my memories and create a physical representation of my unique perspective on globalized culture. Through geometric shapes and abstract forms, I am able to convey myself in a visual language that to the outside observer does not belong to me culturally. In this way, I present a subtle discussion about cultural appropriation versus cultural appreciation. Your Face Hurts Me Too (2022) utilizes visual motifs to express a literal miscommunication with my mother during which she said this piece’s title to me. 19
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