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Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the early 1990s for her pioneering approach to conceptual photography. For more than four decades, she has mined magazines and archives for photographs and texts, then reconfigured these materials to question their objectivity and grant them new meanings.
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Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978) is a conceptual artist working across film, performance, sculpture, and installation. Through exhaustive research into topics including colonial history, social segregation, and marginalized stories, Kiwanga constructs artworks that tease apart power imbalances and the imperceptible nuances that comprise the aesthetics of power.
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Mona Hatoum’s Deep Throat (1996) offers an interior view of her  body as an object to be consumed. The artist inventively edited her endoscopy and colonoscopy footage to appear as if we are traveling through her digestive tract, from teeth to anus and back again. “I wanted the work to be about the body probed, invaded, violated, deconstructed,” said Hatoum, who, like all of us, lives in a technologically advanced society, where the loss of personal privacy is widely tolerated. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Mona Hatoum, Deep Throat
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Valuing geometric simplicity and economy of means, Lina Bo Bardi (1914 – 1992) designed the Poltona Bowl Chair with a steel frame and stackable seat containing two circular cushions.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Poltrona Bowl Chair By Lina Bo Bardi