COLLECTION

1937 [INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA

Jan Vromman
In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - ART ELECTRONIQUE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
A weird and futuristicly dressed couple shows the viewer how to paint with videos. They display different techniques. This video by Michel Bonnemaison and Joëlle de La Casinière plays with the idea that video may have the same status as painting....

THE WORLDWIDE WEB OF SORROWS

Koen Theys
The video contains a few hundred excerpts of clips found on YouTube, showing women trying to grab the attention of the viewer by crying in front of their webcam, sitting alone in their apartment. Some of them are silently sobbing, while others are loudly crying out their despair...

L’OEIL ET LA CAGE

Jean-Claude Riga
During an open day at a disused prison, a team of television reporters, a former inmate and a host of visitors drift in. Perhaps it is only a question of viewpoint : the prison warder’s, the detainee’s,... the viewer’s. Perhaps it is only a question of the medium which replaces the eye of the warder : the television camera (whether surveillance of reporting.....

PORTAL

Anouk De Clercq
Portal unfolds a space where you can drop your guard: a rhythmical, geometrical landscape, a soothing place made from sloping shapes and whispering sounds. Anouk De Clercq depicts an ‘interior landscape’, a mental space built of cool shades of grey and fathomless horizons, rotating, tilting and caressing...

ELECTION DEFEAT

Steve Reinke
Takes us back to our awkward high school years in Toledo, Ohio, 1968....

Gand Ouest, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GAND OUEST

Angel Vergara
Vergara filmed this piece in looking westward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition held in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...

Light Showers, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

LIGHT SHOWERS

Peter Finnemore
The artist lights up some fireworks and then, under his umbrella, he enjoys a rain of sparks....

HOE WAAR VALS KAN ZIJN

Stefaan Decostere
Working under the cover of imitation and parody, Jacques Charlier has allways set out to expose the perverse use to which images are put by art and society. Decostere’s film demonstrates this in an exemplary manner...