Borderland News / Self Promotion

  ! BORDERLAND NEWS HOT OFF THE PRESS ! Nicholaus Pevsner a writer and historian who wrote the book series ‘Buildings of England’, which reviewed every county in the UK and recorded notable structures during the mid 20th century, described … Continue reading Borderland News / Self Promotion

Efflorescence

efflorescence by Iftikhar Dadi

In chemistry, efflorescence (which means “to flower out” in French) is the migration of a salt to the surface of a porous material, where it forms a coating. In the world of Art, efflorescence can mean many things. Iftikhar Dadi is an artist, curator and Associate Professor at Cornell University (USA), who collaborated with Elizabeth Dadi to produce an art project that highlights and comments on the use of symbols to represent characteristics of the singular nation-state.

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