Grand-Hornu Images, 2013
French-English, 192 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm
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The Belgium province of Hainaut is a crossroad of destinies and histories. It’s a border land located on a geometric location of potential other worlds, intertwined in a surrealist reality and against a backdrop of chiming bells. It’s is a region with a rich and diverse cultural heritage, though outside it’s borders that’s frequently over looked.
In this subjective atlas more then three dozen Hainuyers show what this cultural heritage means for them as artists, designers and inhabitants. What roles do historical events play in their every-day live? What does it mean when a site is protected by the world heritage list? How does it form their contemporary reality Rather then folkloristic clichés, the visual authors of this atlas present personal, sensitive and at times razor-sharp visions. In this way the Subjective atlas of Hainaut is a poetic form of antrophology, offering a new insight in the barely tangible aspects that make a culture both characterististic and in continuous change.
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ISBN 978-296-012-681-5
The recognition of twenty sites and events in the Province of Hainaut as UNESCO World Heritage served as the catalyst for creating this atlas. In collaboration with the organisations connected to these sites, we organised more than eight workshops with people who hold a personal relationship to them.
EDITORIAL TEAM: Moniek Driesse, Annelys de Vet.
PARTNER: Grand-Hornu Images, Féderation du Tourism Wallonie
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Bureau DEVET (Moniek Driesse, Rekka Fries [intern], David Ortiz, Annelys de Vet)
Grand-Hornu Images, 2013
French-English, 192 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm
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The Belgium province of Hainaut is a crossroad of destinies and histories. It’s a border land located on a geometric location of potential other worlds, intertwined in a surrealist reality and against a backdrop of chiming bells. It’s is a region with a rich and diverse cultural heritage, though outside it’s borders that’s frequently over looked.
In this subjective atlas more then three dozen Hainuyers show what this cultural heritage means for them as artists, designers and inhabitants. What roles do historical events play in their every-day live? What does it mean when a site is protected by the world heritage list? How does it form their contemporary reality Rather then folkloristic clichés, the visual authors of this atlas present personal, sensitive and at times razor-sharp visions. In this way the Subjective atlas of Hainaut is a poetic form of antrophology, offering a new insight in the barely tangible aspects that make a culture both characterististic and in continuous change.
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ISBN 978-296-012-681-5
The recognition of twenty sites and events in the Province of Hainaut as UNESCO World Heritage served as the catalyst for creating this atlas. In collaboration with the organisations connected to these sites, we organised more than eight workshops with people who hold a personal relationship to them.
EDITORIAL TEAM: Moniek Driesse, Annelys de Vet.
PARTNER: Grand-Hornu Images, Féderation du Tourism Wallonie
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Bureau DEVET (Moniek Driesse, Rekka Fries [intern], David Ortiz, Annelys de Vet)
