Final Study Guide
Jacolby Satterwhite
● Work: We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other
○ Medium: HD digital color video, 3D animation, sound (24:22 minutes)
○ Bethann Hardison
Sonia Gomes
● Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil
● Uses recycled goods and textiles that she is given
Edgar Calel
● Lives and works in Guatemala
● Key Term: Mayan
● Work: The Echo of an Ancient Form of Knowledge
○ Medium: Limestone rocks, fruits
○ The work is considered "activated" after either Calel or someone he appointed
completes a pre-biennale Mayan ritual ceremony. He does this process with each
biennale stop and uses fresh fruit, specifically funerary fruit used in Korea, and
limestone rocks serving as "altars" from Guatemala.
Min Joung-Ki
● Works:
○ Min Joung-Ki's work combines traditional Korean mapmaking techniques and
multiple perspectives from hikes around Mudeung Mountain, rather than a
realistic depiction. He merges a Western approach (oil on canvas) with Korean
influences, emphasizing human traces within nature and commemorating
"Mother Earth."
Michael Rakowitz
● Lives and works in Chicago
● Work: The Invisible Enemies Should Not Exist
● Used packaging from disposable goods, including Middle Eastern packaging and Arabic
newspapers as well.
● Help regather the items destroyed in the Baghdad Iraq Museum. In using these frail,
disposable goods, Rakowitz creates a parallel between the works lost in Baghdad and
the work he has created. This work is not only a commentary on the work lost but also a
plea for awareness to replenish what was lost in this tense, changing region.
Liam Young
● Lives and works in Australia
● Work: Planet City
○ Concept: Imagines consolidating global urban sprawl into a single hyper-dense
metropolis
Yishai Jusidman
● Born in Mexico City, Mexico
● Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
● Work: Prussian Blue
○ Jusidman uses Prussian blue pigment, symbolically linked to cyanide gas
residues from Holocaust gas chambers, to create a monotonous, hyperrealistic
effect. This choice of medium evokes an eerie, solemn atmosphere, reinforcing
the historical significance and gravity of the Holocaust within his artwork.
Alfredo Jaar
● Born in Chile
● Lives and works in New York
● Work: A Hundred Times Nguyen
Deborah Luster
● Lives and works in New Orleans, LA
● Work: One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana
○ Medium: Archival pigment prints on Kozo paper
○ Concept: Whole-person perspectives of prisoners
○ Key Names: St. Gabriel Prison, Angola Prison
Dawoud Bey
● Born in Queens, NY
● Lives and works in Chicago
● Works (Gelatin Silver Prints):
○ This photo is from the series "This Here Place" that were taken on plantation
landscapes along the Mississippi River. He used silver gelatin prints in creating
this specific one of the series "Tree and Cabin." This work focuses on not the
larger plantation houses, but rather the cabins and landscape that the enslaved
people would inhabit
Candice Lin
● Born in Massachusetts
● Lives and works in Los Angeles
● Work: Swamp Fat
○ The artist references the community of Saint Malo, Louisiana, specifically
highlighting a small Philippine fishing village destroyed by a hurricane in the 20th
century. The use of "Swamp Fat" symbolizes the Mississippi River, emphasizing
its gelatinous condition filled with animal carcasses and fat.
Homa Delvaray
● Lives and works in Tehran, Iran
● Works: Posters such as Tehran Touch
○ Get graphic design on the map in the Middle East; she took inspiration from
Persian script in her work instead of the traditional Roman script that is more
commonly used
Lauren Bowker (TheUnseen)
● Lives and works in London
● Work: Jacket from the AIR collection
○ Medium: Leather, wind-reactive ink
○ Uses ink that is reactive based on chemical changes in the body and
environmental conditions. Ultimately, her research is used to be able to monitor
conditions of climate as well as human health. In using these inks in the work,
there is hope that her background and interest in science can be fused with these
new technologies to allow for a cleaner and more refined environment
Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler
● Live and work in Vienna, Austria
● Work: Curiosity Cloud
○ Medium: Mouth-blown glass bulbs, artificial insects, electronics
○ Curiosity Cloud is an installation featuring 265 glass bulbs, each housing
artificially crafted insects representing 25 different species. The artists
meticulously studied insect flight patterns to ensure accuracy in the movement of
the sculptures. By including extinct and endangered insects, the artwork provides
an immersive experience intended to raise awareness of the declining insect
ecosystem.
threeASFOUR
● Live and work in New York
● Works:
○ Harmonograph Dress and Pangolin Dress
■ Medium: 3D printed black nylon powder mesh
■ The first dress is inspired by a harmonograph and was modeled after the
interceptions of a harmonograph. A harmonograph is a tool that sway
back and forth in a pendulum-like motion to create a spiral design. The
second dress (right) is inspired by the Pangolin: the only mammal
covered in tough scales. They are heavily trafficked and sought after in
Asia and Africa and have scales varying in depth and size. Both works
were 3D printed over a long process.
Vincent Valdez
● Work: The Strangest Fruit
○ Medium: Oil on canvas
● Works: La Matanza and Hora de Sangre
○ About a series of murders in the 1900s when a mass of hundreds of Mexican and
Mexican American people were lynched, murdered, or disappeared, often by
white people in Texas.
Watie White
● Lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska
● Work: All that ever was, always is (Front Porch, 424 Emmet)
○ Medium: Acrylic on paper, reclaimed wood
○ The project is a community based project that sets out to turn neglected and
deteriorating homes in North Omaha in order to make them pieces of visual
interest within the city through the art that is done atop the condemned
properties.
Sama Alshaibi
● Tucson, AZ
● Work: The Cessation
○ Medium: Neon, aluminum, acrylic, copper, palm fronds, terracotta, sound
○ called 1001 Nights, and also uses pots in the work. Within the pots, there are
words scratched into them that refer back to the disappearance of women during
the Iraq War, using words like "professor" or "shot dead" that were listed in the
death reports. In addition to this, there are palm fronds and a small water exhibit
to allude to the overall theme in the work of conflict and violence being an
unwanted staple of Iraq in her lifetime.
Jiha Moon
● Lives and works in Jacksonville, FL
● Work: Kimchi
○ Medium: Earthenware, underglaze, glaze, found object
○ She uses fortune cookies, an American-made representation of Asian culture, in
the body to allude to the cultural appropriation and misconceptions that Asian
Americans often face in Western culture.
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