Flanders ultra -nationalist student connections: uniform vs. individuality
The press release addresses two portrait sequences of members of an ultranationalist student connection in Flanders that are compared. The photographs show members, sometimes without uniform and emphasize the strict hierarchies that are conveyed by clothing. Sebastian Wells also presents impressions of his travels through Flanders, including overgrown walls, trenches, demonstrators wrapped against corona measures in Flemish-nationalist flags. These pictures create a complex network of traces of past and contemporary signs. In his artistic work, Sebastian Wells also deals with history, especially with racist discourses. He revised a historical publication that described the "Germanic Volks face" to the power of text and image in the ...
Flanders ultra -nationalist student connections: uniform vs. individuality
The press release addresses two portrait sequences of members of an ultranationalist student connection in Flanders that are compared. The photographs show members, sometimes without uniform and emphasize the strict hierarchies that are conveyed by clothing. Sebastian Wells also presents impressions of his travels through Flanders, including overgrown walls, trenches, demonstrators wrapped against corona measures in Flemish-nationalist flags. These pictures create a complex network of traces of past and contemporary signs.
In his artistic work, Sebastian Wells also deals with history, especially with racist discourses. He revised a historical publication that described the "Germanic People's face" to reflect on the power of text and image in historiography. The spread of right-wing radical thought in Europe is critically highlighted by Wells by showing how identity and historical ideas are staged and communicated visually.The presentation of the photographs and artistic works by Sebastian Wells takes an important look at the politically invited topics of identity policy, historiography and right -wing radical ideas in the present. By combining visual elements with historical and current discourses, Wells stimulates thinking about the power of pictures and their political importance.
| Flanders | Student connection | Ultrnationalism | Sebastian Wells |
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| Historical publications | Right -wing radical ideas | Identity policy | History presentation |
The table offers an overview of the topics dealt with in Sebatian Wells' works and provides insights into the multi -layered examination of the artist with political and historical contexts. Wells' works offer a reflected and critical view of social phenomena and encourage the importance of historiography and identity policy.
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