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Concept and praxis: skepticism and art

No. 68

Thread and skeptical discourse in contemporary creation through embroidery and Installation Art: the works of Ghada Amer and Chiharu Shiota

  • Marisa Vadillo Rodríguez
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12795/themata.2023.i68.14
Submitted
May 30, 2023
Published
2023-12-30

Abstract

Partial research of the project El escepticismo pirrónico-empírico y el escepticismo académico en su desarrollo histórico [...] (EPADMECO), which explores the work of contemporary artists Ghada Amer and Chiharu Shiota, who have redefined thread as a graphic element of expanded drawing (embroidered line and in space) to create a sceptical discourse: artistic images that induce doubt, knowledge, as opposed to the dogmatic ones that invade us from post-truth. Part of the field study resulting from research stays at the Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía and the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas.

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