Projects
Aesthetic regimes, social characteristics of visual artists, and cultural consecration: A diachronic sociological analysis of artists’ subsidies between 1965 and 1999 in Flanders Ghent University
We offer a historical-sociological analysis that looks into how characteristics of art and artists are associated with receiving state support. Using visual artists’ applications for subsidies between 1965 and 1999 we can relate social characteristics of artists and aesthetic dimensions of their work to subsidies and frame these relationships historically in the political and artistic context.
Model as Sculpture. Architectural representations in the realm of the visual arts: 1970-2000 Ghent University
This research project explores the status and meaning of the architectural model within the realm of the visual arts (1970-2000). The aim is to define its modus operandi as a type of sculpture and to describe its complex position within the inter-related yet fundamentally shifting domains of art and architecture in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
Female Faces, Intellectual Identities. Visual and Textual Portraits of Learned Women in Early Modern Collective Biographies KU Leuven
Drawing and Dissent. Pictorial Notebook Culture and the Politics of Art in the Dutch Revolt KU Leuven
Mastering the curtains. An artistic study into the relation of visual arts with heritage, propaganda and censorship in Iran. University of Antwerp
Visual literacies, provocative practices KU Leuven
Retracing Ghent. City Views as Visual Discourses on the Local Past, c. 1500-1900 Ghent University
This project proposes to study city views from Ghent, created between c. 1500 and c. 1900, to trace long-term developments in the representation of the urban built environment. The case of Ghent is selected because of its rich corpus of city views and because since the early sixteenth century the city has been marked by a tension between medieval nostalgia and the realities of constant political, cultural and physical change. Borrowing a ...
Women in the Wave: A content and visual analysis of the representation of female characters in Yugoslav New Cinema and Black Wave Cinema. University of Antwerp
Revolution from Afar: Egyptian Visual Artists in Europe after the 2013 Turn Ghent University
The intervention of the military in 2013 has been a serious backlash for visual artists from Egypt addressing the topic of revolution in their work. This project aims to study the paths of artists who left Egypt after 2013 for Europe, mapping networks on which they rely and inquiring the dilemmas of
their new position after arrival.