Projects

Research conducted in the context of the current conservation/restoration project of Jan van EyckU+2019s Ghent Altarpiece and in preparation of our recent exhibition U+2018Van Eyck: an Optical RevolutionU+2019, has opened new avenues for further innovative art- historical scholarship.

• It has been established now that Van Eyck was the first pictor doctus in the North, who was knowledgeable about antique texts, natural sciences ...

We investigate creative copying as a catalyst for art theory in the early 16th-century Low Countries. We define the status and function of creative copying in the altering art practice and theory by unraveling underlying visual strategies. We thus elucidate how creative copying generated opportunities to enrich art with theories of imitation and enforce pictorial innovations in the Northern decorum.

A-PLACE. Linking places through networked artistic practices

A-PLACE will design and implement art-centred placemaking activities (i.e. performances, installations, debates, video and photography productions) in six European cities -Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana, and Nicosia- to connect meanings and experiences associated to places across cultural and geographic boundaries. People of multiple origins and backgrounds ...

Motivated by a strong passion for the Arctic regions and a deep respect for the indigenous peoples living there, I designed my artistic doctoral research in the favor of decolonization processes. Two art projects were realized during this PhD: Food Related, for which knowledge on Arctic food is shared on a platform, and Niva to Nenets, an interactive road-movie that questions gift-giving and aspects of the us-and-them ...

Humanity’s facing extinction as a consequence of its exploitative activities towards the nonhuman world calls for new possibilities of survival and the rethinking of our relation to the nonhuman. I propose that an artistic practice that acknowledges and explores the affective dimension of human and nonhuman relations will allow for a novel perspective. In fact, guided by empathy, shared vulnerabilities between human and nonhuman entities will ...