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Dr. Melentie Pandilovski, "The world of Ariel Hassan – Between Barthes, Phenomenology, and Post Phenomenology, Exploring Boundaries and Perception"
“… wrestling is a sum of spectacles, of which no single one is a function: each moment imposes the total knowledge of a passion which...
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Tai Mitsuji, "Of Mercy And Time"
Ariel Hassan’s Of Mercy and Time (2023) collapses old gods and new technologies into one another. In the work, we encounter a religious...
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Clare Fuery-Jones, "Antropofagia" | catalogue essay, 2024
Expansive in their constructed spaces and tonalities, spectra of monochrome shift, morph, reveal and obscure across a series of canvases....
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Paul Greenaway OAM, "Antropofagia Drawing Suite"
The cultural practice of cannibalism – eating another human being or even eating oneself – has always been considered abhorrent; a deviation beyond acceptable cultural boundaries, but which has nonetheless influenced artists across the ages. Sanguma warriors who live along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, believed that eating the flesh from the upper thigh of a strong enemy would give them power. Similar traditions appear historically in tribes of South America, which lat
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