SUPERDEMOCRACY

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    SUPER DEMOCRACY - The Senate of Things

    Three cultural institutions enter into a dialogue with the Belgian Senate during the exhibition SUPERDEMOCRACY, which is on display throughout October. BPS22 in Charleroi, BOZAR in Brussels and M HKA in Antwerp provide a cultural dimension to the Senate’s current issues.

    1.10.2017 - 31.10.2017

    Taus Makhacheva

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    © Taus Makhacheva. Photo: M HKA
    Types du Caucase, 2013-2015
    Taus Makhacheva
    Installation , 91 x (ca. 14 x 9 cm)
    paper

    Types du Caucase is a set of 19th-century postcards from Taus Makhacheva’s personal archive. The life and customs of the peoples of the Caucasus appear on postcards as an exoticized representation of the Other. The captions on the postcards are written in Russian and French, which designates them as being for the members of the elites of that time. Examples of ‘popularised ethnography’ of the Russian Empire, such ‘picturesque’ photographs are the product of orientalism that served as an instrument of colonial policy.

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