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The artist’s project:
Stephen’s plan is to travel Europe’s capitals and collect portraits of Europe’s men and women. |
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Because of its huge diversity, European civilisation is difficult to define. It has been fertilised by multiple influences century after century. Today, globalisation is bringing new influences are shaping Europe’s culture further. At a time when political Europe is being built, we need to take stock of the cultural and human inheritance, which is possibly of greater importance than the already well structured market or nascent foreign policy |
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| Stephen Huljak’s ambition is to replicate what he has done in Paris in Europe’s other 24 capitals during 2005. He will travel to each city, select 12 different locations at the edge of each city, and there, choose 12 new faces. The final work will comprise 3,600 portraits. Through symbolic recurrence, it will form a picture of Europe far removed from the image of individualism, violence and stress typically conveyed by the media. Both existential and artistic, this work it is not an end in itself. It will seek to define the new borders of the new Europe and forever change our view of who our new neighbours are. |
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The Face of Europe