EXPANDED ECHOES, Bruxelles, 2024 / 2025
Expanded Echoes / Bruxelles – 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 of Bruxelles..
The project “Expanded Echoes” develops and reflects upon the notion of “echoing” memories and expanding landscapes. In dialogue with local communities and institutions, the trajectory 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. Within its many phases of work and outcomes, the results included the publication of a limited edition volume, Expanded Echoes and The Trilogy of Wetness, by Andrea Aragone and Niccolò Masini, published under the L Latitude Logbook editions (2024).
The project Expanded Echoes was granted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program XIII (2024/2025) and has the support of Nctm e l’Arte XVIII. Project partners also included Associazione Culturale Amanei, Salina – Aeolian Islands(IT) and Studio Florida, Genoa (IT).
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EXPANDED ECHOES – CONSTELLATIONS ARCHIVES – Archive images, newspapers, and burnt paper (various sizes) FIRE — Exhibition curated by Louma Salamé | The Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels, 2025
EXPANDED ECHOES CONSTELLATIONS ARCHIVES (details) – Archive images, newspapers, and burnt paper (various sizes) FIRE — The Boghossian Foundation Collection – Villa Empain, Brussels, 2025
EXPANDED ECHOES AND THE TRILOGY OF WETNESS – Excerpts from the publication Expanded Echoes and The Trilogy of Wetness by Andrea Aragone and Niccolò Masini Published by Latitude Logbook, 2025
Excerpts from the publication Expanded Echoes and The Trilogy of Wetness by Andrea Aragone and Niccolò Masini Published by Latitude Logbook, 2025.
EXPANDED ECHOES | CURTAINS (Installed view): Single-channel video essay installation – 9’ 23’’, Florida, Genoa, 2025.