Making National Heritage move Ilya Rabinovich’s "Museutopia" projects

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Publication date 2016
Journal Espacio, Tiempo y Forma
Volume | Issue number 2016 | 4
Pages (from-to) 261-277
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract This paper examines the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion within national historical museum exhibitions by analyzing two photographic research projects of the Moldovan-Israeli artist Ilya Rabinovich. I employ Edward Said’s method of contrapuntal analysis to tease out the way in which Rabinovich turns the customary relation between artifacts and exhibitions inside out. I show how the artist’s personal history of double migration is not only the driving force behind the projects, but also underlies their aesthetic rationale of dis-identification.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.5944/etfvii.4.2016
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