Belgica

The group exhibition BELGICA: territoires d’impressions, presented at CIVA in Brussels in June-August 2021, aims to examine the multiple lives of a territory: capture its (in)significant tracks, follow clues, represent them, produce a narrative based on its modalities, and to note the macro and micro-narratives already inscribed in objects and materials. The result of an MFA seminar at the University of Paris 8 and its objective study of territory in 2020-2021, this exhibition is a singular body of work highlighting different mediums: cartographies, drawings, videos, installations and printmaking.

This one year research project was created in a collaboration between CIVA,  the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis, and Paris la Villette School of Architecture. Professors, researchers, Phd and master’s students in visual arts and architecture worked together with the invited art researchers. The methodology of the program incorporated a university seminar, in situ workshops, and guest interventions, cross-examining each territory’s historical layers with an archaeology of media and mediums.

Curators: Philippe Nys, Claire Fagnart, Laura del Mar Guzman in dialogue with Ursula Wieser Benedetti.
Invited Art Researchers: Daniel Henry and Dima Karout.

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