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THE MYSELF SCHEMA
Messieurs DelmotteA well dressed man is standing in front of the camera. All seems normal, but suddendly a pair of legs is appearing on both sides of his body... This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...
OPERA AND STEEL
Grace SchwindtOpera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...
THE APPELS
Messieurs DelmotteFilmed with a steady, distant camera, we see a boy shaking an apple tree. Consequently, he picks up the result of his action. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO Vol. 2...
FIR TREE
Messieurs DelmotteIn a public park the protagonist approaches a pine with a small ladder. He unfolds it, takes a run up, and jumps into a tree, desperately trying to clench on to it. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
LA MER À VOIR
Jacques LennepLennep describes a certain scene by the sea with an island in the background. He adopts various poses and sums up the various possibilities of the place....
LA FORCE DES CHOSES
Bernard MulliezThe film is a portrait of the father of the artist, who lived off a private income provided by a familial commercial empire—for which he simply had to thank his birth. Mulliez has tried to render visible the exterior forces that influenced this man. There’s of course the issue of money, but there’s also the matter of an interiorized user’s manual that comes with capital...
The Greenhouse Effect, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Peter FinnemoreThe greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions: this results in an elevation of the average surface temperature. Closed inside a greenhouse, Finnemore's troops dance on the rhythm of a lounge score and re-radiate an uncontrollable delight....
CINDY CRAWFORD
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte cuts out the face from a poster of the American model Cindy Crawford to become Cindy himself, at least just for a brief moment. Part of the series 'Century of the 20th Sex'....
MIC MAC: AH, VOUS VOILÀ JOËLLE MILQUET! [PRÉSIDENTE DU PARTI CDH]
Claudio PazienzaThe magazine Mic Mac, conceived by RTBF and ARTE, offers a perspective on the present as it is confided to artists. Current events are rendered with a non-journalist, personal approach. Each of the sequences is an encounter in a polling booth with a Belgian personality. The texts are projected onto a prompter, objects, sounds are offered to the guest as a cause for ironic exposure....
