identity & prejudice beyond sight
The Themes
For subjects as rich as identity and prejudice, there are numerous visceral responses and insights that can be drawn. While the prompts invited the artists to engage deeply with specific dimensions of the subject, the themes and reflections try to explore some of the patterns that have emerged from the artworks.
ANONYMOUS FEMALE
JUXTAPOSITION
OF
PURITY AND
POLLUTION
IMPLICATED
IN ART
THE
IMPOSSIBILITYOF EMPATHY
Click on any of the theme name to go to the individual Theme pages
A
SENSE
OF PLACE
CONNECTING WITH THE NON-HUMAN
OFFICIALLY
IDENTIFIED
ATTACHMENT
REMEMBERING
INDIVIDUAL
VS
COLLECTIVE
EARNING
A NAME
FLESH AND FEELINGS
DESCRIPTION: This is a grid of all the artistic responses classified by themes. Each theme is represented by a set of square boxes, arranged randomly, in a combination of colours that corresponds to the week in which the artwork was submitted.
The colours for each of the weeks are Week 1: peach, Week 2: light green, Week 3: red, Week 4: light purple, Week 5: light blue, Week 6: orange, Week 7: light yellow, Week 8: sea green, Week 9: mustard, Week 10: dark purple.
The 12 themes are placed at different places in the grid. The names of the themes and the number of art works for each theme are, ‘Anonymous Female:11’,’Implicated in Art:18’, ‘The Impossibility of Empathy:22’, ‘Juxtaposition of purity and pollution:10:’, ‘Officially identified:18’, ‘Remembering:12’,’Individual versus collective:14’, ‘A sense of place:12’, ‘Connecting with the non-human:12’,’Earning a name:14’ ,’Attachment:13’ and ‘Flesh and feelings:19’.
Our team has developed these themes to explore some of the interesting and diverse ways in which artists have responded to the subject of identity and prejudice, beyond the concepts of the prompts. These themes capture the tensions, resistances, ruminations, anxieties, memories, joys, nostalgia and the perplexities that are present in the artworks. These themes are by no means exhaustive of the many, many different ways in which the creations of this project can be explored. But we hope that it shall stir further such explorations and reflections.