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Through his work, Willem de Rooij critically engages global art histories and visual anthropology, juxtaposing appropriated objects and considering the interconnection between institutional contexts and contemporary forms of mediation. ‘Hut Hut’ is De Rooij’s first solo exhibition in Portugal, featuring a new site-specific installation and two rarely shown early works.
The effect of Rijksmuseum/Tropenmuseum and Hut, both from 1993, lies as much in what is visible as in what is obscured: each consists of a set of postcards partially covered with black gouache paint. Employing the double as a formal and rhetorical device, these early works articulate core concerns that have come to define De Rooij’s practice: the colonial and nationalist ideologies at the foundation of museums devoted to both art and ethnography, and the ethics and politics of collecting and display.
The installation ‘Hut Hut’, developed especially for Lumiar Cité, builds on these underpinings through a detailed study of…
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Through his work, Willem de Rooij critically engages global art histories and visual anthropology, juxtaposing appropriated objects and considering the interconnection between institutional contexts and contemporary forms of mediation. ‘Hut Hut’ is De Rooij’s first solo exhibition in Portugal, featuring a new site-specific installation and two rarely shown early works.
The effect of Rijksmuseum/Tropenmuseum and Hut, both from 1993, lies as much in what is visible as in what is obscured: each consists of a set of postcards partially covered with black gouache paint. Employing the double as a formal and rhetorical device, these early works articulate core concerns that have come to define De Rooij’s practice: the colonial and nationalist ideologies at the foundation of museums devoted to both art and ethnography, and the ethics and politics of collecting and display.
The installation ‘Hut Hut’, developed especially for Lumiar Cité, builds on these underpinings through a detailed study of…































