Engaged visual art as a tool for normative renewal in international human rights : the case of Ariella Azoulay’s potential history (2012)

This contribution is a first attempt at collaboration between an art researcher, Hilde Van Gelder, and a scholar of human rights law, Eva Brems, which we hope will develop into a fully fledged research project. In the first part of the chapter, Hilde Van Gelder shows how Ariella Azoulay ’ s artistic and curatorial work leads to her theoretical positions on human rights, that is, how visual art talks to international human rights law in this case, and what it has to say. In the second part, Eva Brems explores whether and how international human rights law can rise to the challenge of, and address, the claims put forward by the artist and art researcher