By Joe Webb
Photocollages & Photomontages
Untitled (Money can buy you love)
By Barbara Kruger
Prologue
By Donigan Cumming
from the ‘Binary Code’ series
a peek into Josef Albers’s Bauhaus photocollages*
Untitled (Bullfight, San Sebastian), 1930/1932 by Josef Albers (1888-1976)
© 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Paul Klee, Dessau, 1929/1932 by Josef Albers (1888-1976)
© 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1929/1932 by Josef Albers (1888-1976)
© 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
*On show at MOMA till 02 April.
**More about the show here.
from the ‘Bestiary’ series
[AntiQueFuture] Ex abrupto
‘Chadories’ by Batool Showgh
Recently I created a series of works under the theme of Chadories; which encompasses a series of issues to do with conformity, uniformity and closure.
These works examine the physical limits that women can have with regard to cultural and religious boundaries. They show the enforcement of cultural conformity and obedience, which is imposed on women. They show how constantly women are shrouded and have to hide their identities, ideologies and voices and live through secret and disguise to get by. Women are constantly enforced and conditioned to an extreme censorship of their physical and mental being.
I use the medium of photography in the form of Artists books, Collages and mixed media manipulations to convey my stories. The thread and stitching here symbolises restrictions of movement and confinement.