On the contrary, these paintings are elusive,
ambiguously pleasurable, private.
Other works have drawn on performance to bring out the
ambiguously coded nature of deviancy.
The ever-shifting hands in The Hiroshima Projection seemed newly at tuned to such contradictions, replacing more anonymous, even cliched images from Wodiczko's past projections--the French-cuffed paw of male corporate power, for example, that proffered candle and gun on the facade of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC (1988) or reached
ambiguously in a pledge of allegiance on the AT&T Building, New York (1984).
The relationship between the many buttocks in McCarthy's installations and the similar items displayed for instance in the work of Robert Gober, in which irony and mourning, retention and powerful punning form a quite different context for an
ambiguously staged homosexual sensibility, needs explanation.
The
ambiguously framed title suggests that the temptation of looking is too great--all heads must turn toward the flickering images, no matter what the consequence.
In Of a Reversible Nature, 2000 (which could be subtitled "Under the Sea"), wavy organic forms in a watery blue-green field surround what might be the birth of an
ambiguously gendered Venus figure.
For Sabine Hornig, these
ambiguously differentiated places in society are symbolized by building entrances.
Strongly resembling graphite drawings, the works hover
ambiguously between media, just as the figures in them appear alternately as pure form and corporeal impression.
It also looks ageless -
ambiguously old and new - and its millennia-long association with pots and other vessels contributes to the metaphoric suggestiveness of her hollow torsos that, deprived of limbs, instead become biomorphic containers.
Candies, 1998, the stiff-image corollary to Alter Ergo, shows Chang's
ambiguously pried-open mouth and stiffly bound but elegantly clad body against a stark white background, resembling nothing so much as a United Colors of Benetton ad.
Forcing landlords to sell their properties to tenants at a price
ambiguously deemed "reasonable" by future Labour government should set alarms bells ringing.
In an unexpected and
ambiguously worded statement, Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called for "neutrality" in the Istanbul vote, in comments that could be understood as suggesting Kurds not take part.
