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DEUX OISEAUX CHANTENT
Jacques Louis NystTwo characters wonder about birdsong. One of them affirms that a page of text lies at the origin. The dialogue that ensues is evocative of a series of images of familiar objects and of the snowed over countryside of Presseux Village. The influence of the winter landscape orients the conversation towards the idea of whiteness and silence. The action slows down...
THE NEW DRESS
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeA portrait of Sister Majella Hoppenbrouwers who worked from 1956 to 1961 with the Asmat Papuans in the former Dutch New Guinea....
FANFARE, CALME ET VOLUPTÉ
Koen TheysMusicians and majorettes, seemingly dressed up for a public performance, are sound asleep. They have their brass instruments with them, but their drowsiness prevents them from playing. Time is suspended in this ’tableau vivant’ and the tiniest gesture of one of the sleeping majorettes becomes an event, creating a tension in the image that contrasts with its picturesque composition...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 76. MICROSCOPE
Steve ReinkeWhenever I look into a microscope, I feel like I’m looking inside of something. A barrier seems to have been broken....
Cadere GBA, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
CADERE GBA
Angel VergaraMarie-Puck Broodthaers lent Angel Vergara a piece of Cadere’s work. Vergara is walking around with it in the Centre for Fine Arts, where at that time an exhibition of Benjamin Katz was taking place. John Baldessari and Carl André appear onscreen....
THE LAND
Pieter GeenenWhile walking through the landscape the camera explores the so called Canadian tobacco belt of Southwestern Ontario in three chapters. In the footsteps of the first European settlers on the American continent, the viewer discovers how the historical process of colonisation, cultivation and exploitation of the land is still being reflected in present day reality...
Resting, Ria Pacquée, 2011. Courtesy the Artist
RESTING
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée made this piece by transferring slides and photographs to video. In different parts of Belgium and the world – large parts in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America – the artist shot hundreds of pictures of resting people. In most of the cases the subjects did not know they were ‘portrayed’ by the artist...
