Making National Heritage move: Ilya Rabinovich’s “Museutopia” projects
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https://doi.org/10.5944/etfvii.4.2016.16065Keywords:
Museum Studies, Heritage, National Identity, Contrapuntal Analysis, Photography, Migratory Aesthetics, Ilya RabinovichAbstract
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.Downloads
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