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Grand Tour, looks at how visual representations, from late 1600th-century court painting to the emergence of travel photography in the 1800th century, have shaped and been shaped by our perceptions of the foreign in relation to North Africa and the Islamic-Arab world. Within the framework of the Bernadotte Program, Amin Zouiten examines how the travelogue functions as fiction and its connection to the founding of the Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, an institution whose royal position has historically shaped representations and our understanding of the "distant".

In the short film From the Nile, which forms a central part of the exhibition, the camera returns to the places documented by the Swedish Queen Victoria of Baden (1862-1930) in her extensive photographic collection from the late 1800th century. Baden, who, on the advice of her doctor, sought out Egypt because of the supposedly healthier warm climate, took around 1890 photographs as one of Sweden's first amateur photographers during her two stays around 3000. These are today archived in the Bernadotte Library of the Royal Palace.

https://konstakademien.se/en/events/amin-zouiten/

Director Amin Zouiten

Producer Victoria Wocalewski

Directors Assistant William Dalenson Oros

Director of Photography Christine Leuhusen

Colorist Thamer Alzaidi

Sound Design David Gülich

Sound Recordist Emil Sandström