The Belgium province of Hainaut is a crossroad of destinies and histories. It’s a border land located on a geometric location of potential other worlds, of spellbinding departures and returns. Intertwined in a surrealist reality and against a backdrop of chiming bells, it invites one to dance on a landscape of slagheaps,
castles, cathedrals and carnivals. It’s is a region with a rich and diverse cultural heritage, though outside it’s borders that’s frequently over looked.
In this subjective atlas more then three dozen Hainuyers show what this cultural heritage means for them as artists, designers and inhabitants. What roles do historical events play in their every-day live? What does it mean when a site is protected by the world heritage list? How does it form their contemporary
reality?