Spring Semester Art Exhibition

The Moreau Art Galleries welcomes you to two spring exhibitions that will run from January 21 to March 6, 2015. Click for campus map.  

touristic intents
By Mat Rappaport

Mat Rappaport's research explores the intersection of architecture, built environments, ideology and the users’ experience of these designed artifacts. Architecture shapes the identity of “place” and the identities of the populations that inhabit it. Therefore, actions as fundamental as moving between point A and B can be layered with social and political meaning. touristic intents is a multi-modal body of work that explores mass tourism and political ideology through a case study: an unfinished Nazi resort. 

Homeland: Chicago & Belgrade Diasporas
A collaborative project by Melissa Potter and Mat Rappaport

Belgrade’s sister-city, Chicago is known as the Serbian center of the United States with an unverified, but estimated population of 400,000. Since World War 1, the Serbian diaspora tried to create relationships to a homeland in nearly constant flux through wars, national affiliations, and secessions. This project explores the shifting context of Serbian experience through a series of interviews with multi-generational artists and curators who describe the conditions that shaped the experiences of Serbs as they made the US their home, and acclimated to a post-Yugoslavian society. Selected quotes from the interviews are paired with images by Potter and Rappaport in their Chicago Serbian neighborhood, and in Belgrade where they both traveled in 2003. They reveal individual experiences that offer a brief window into the ways in which culture and politics shape our interpretations of belonging and homeland.