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CHADORS AND GRAFFITI, EU FLAGS AND ICONIC
BODIES: FOUR CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS
By Maria Petrides
‘Work grounded in protest - against fascism, moral hypocrisy, the
Vietnam War, and so on - is the closest thing we have to an art that
zeroes in on a crisis of public conscience and attempts to provoke
viewers to think about their own relationship to a social upheaval
close at hand.’1
Contemporary art stretches beyond the boundaries of an
individual medium and of a single national border. With
this encouragement of diversity, fluidity and mobility, art
becomes a form of social empowerment by the very
surrender of singularity. Reviewing the work of four
artists - the Turkish-Cypriot fashion designer and
installation/video artist Hussein Chalayan; the British
graffiti artist known as Banksy; the New York installation
artist Spencer Tunick; and the New York-based multi-
media artist Anna Lascari - this piece of commentary
aims......
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