Een stad tonen: Brussel en zijn subjectieve portretten

Based on BXL Universel – the first part of the trilogy of exhibits on Brussels proposed by CENTRALE for contemporary art – we explore the concept of an “exhibit/portrait of a city”. The 2017 exhibit met the challenge of presenting a city by making Brussels a “creative home port”, by showing the cont...

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Main Author: Anne Reverseau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université libre de Bruxelles - ULB 2019-02-01
Series:Brussels Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/2401
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description Based on BXL Universel – the first part of the trilogy of exhibits on Brussels proposed by CENTRALE for contemporary art – we explore the concept of an “exhibit/portrait of a city”. The 2017 exhibit met the challenge of presenting a city by making Brussels a “creative home port”, by showing the continuity between its past and its present, and by making portraits of it which were diverse as well as subjective. The exhibit created by Carine Fol is put into perspective, both in the context of other exhibits devoted to Brussels in recent years, and of recent research on portraits of territories. This article thus intends to lay the foundations for an analysis of exhibits/portraits of cities in general, and proposes several approaches to the specificity of Brussels as a city being presented, by insisting in particular on the significance of folklore, the foreign perspective and the collective dynamic.
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Een stad tonen: Brussel en zijn subjectieve portretten
Brussels Studies
culture
heritage
multiculturalism
history
Brussels society
photography
title Een stad tonen: Brussel en zijn subjectieve portretten
title_full Een stad tonen: Brussel en zijn subjectieve portretten
title_fullStr Een stad tonen: Brussel en zijn subjectieve portretten
title_full_unstemmed Een stad tonen: Brussel en zijn subjectieve portretten
title_short Een stad tonen: Brussel en zijn subjectieve portretten
title_sort een stad tonen brussel en zijn subjectieve portretten
topic culture
heritage
multiculturalism
history
Brussels society
photography
url http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/2401
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