The Boghossian Foundation
VILLA EMPAIN RESIDENCY PROGRAM – October/December 2024, Bruxelles.
Niccolò Masini has been selected as one of the residents’ of The Boghossian Foundation residency program 2024.
The project “Expanded Echoes” develops and reflects upon the notion of “echoing” memories and expanding landscapes, in collaboration with researcher Andrea Aragone, LATITUDE Platform for Urban Research and Design, The Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empein and the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta.
In dialogue with local communities and institutions, the research articulates visual narrative methodologies and participatory practices, crossing the retrieved information with the places/no-places concepts. To do so, liminal urban environments become the palimpsest to retrace the forgotten landscapes. In this sense, the project focuses on the forgotten wet landscapes that compose the Brussels-Capital Region (BCR), looking at them as liminal disappeared spaces based on hybrid conditions. The proposed methodology delves into the investigation of these wet liminal urban environments, to better dig into the question of the sense of place/place-making. The methodology is constructed to trace the echoes of wet liminal environments governed by hybrid human and not-human conditions; combining interdisciplinary methodologies with spatial practices of active participation. Such approaches deconstruct the seen/unseen of natural/unnatural urban trajectories, potentially highlighting local social-ecological dynamics and identities of the territory under investigation.
The project “Expanded Echoes” is granted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program XIII (2024) and has the support of Nctm e l’Arte XVIII edition .
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The Boghossian Foundation aims to heal cultural divides by providing a space for artistic dialogue between East and West. Designed by Swiss architect Michel Polak for Baron Louis Empain in the 1930s, the villa headquarters of the Boghossian Foundation premises are dedicated as a Centre of Art and Dialogue between Eastern and Western cultures. Welcoming 50’000 visitors per year, the villa hosts art exhibitions, performances, events, and artist residencies to remove social barriers and encourage an exchange of cultural and artistic ideas.
Open to all, the Foundation continues to promote the universal language of art as a force for positive social change.
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