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PRUEBAS
Ardélia IstarúIn 1982, accompanying my father to Paris, my Costa Rican mother sent a series of letters to her parents when she arrived in the French capital. Forty years later, I found these letters and revisit a story full of pain in order to better understand my own arrival on the continent....
L'AVENTURE AMBIGÜE
Bernard MulliezIn ‘L’Aventure Ambigüe’ a tourist outing culminates in a shroud of incomprehension and aggression. When Mulliez pays a visit to a project in the ‘The Rainforest’ zoo in Walloon Yvoir, which usually displays small exotic animals, some Pygmies are busy raising funds for their village in Cameroon...
IL S'AGIT
Antonin De BemelsIn this videographical proposition De Bemels continues his exploration of the physical and the visual limitations of movement, dance and the human body. Central focus is on a static composite torso; it seems to blend in with the rhythmically invigorating limbs of dancer Ugo Dehaes, eyes closed, his head twisting like that of a puppet...
THE LAND WAS ALREADY OCCUPIED (THE FUTURE)
Marie VoignierFor the Ateliers de Rennes 2012, and in keeping with the spirit of Les Prairies, Marie Voignier has put herself in a real-life situation, that of looking at a building plot and investigating the different ways of approaching construction on it...
FRON'T
Charley Case“Democracy with a military brain is the same thing as art without a brain. In the world of political twilight, where art along with life loses its place, war is imposed as a natural catastrophe because "there is no other solution"...
FILMCLUB SITUATIONS
Luc DeleuThe first ’situation’ shows a sticker on a car that says ’Koninklijke filmgroep van Antwerpen’ (Royal Film Group from Antwerp). The viewer is left to guess that the people recording images of streets, cars and each other are members of this film group, putting their art into practice. The second part of the film consists of a time-lapse account of different actions...
3M-Gaudí, 2004, Bigas Luna © the artist
3M-GAUDÍ
Bigas LunaAccording to Gaudi, “Paraboloids, hyperboloids and helicoids, constantly varying the incidence of the light, are rich in matrices themselves, which make ornamentation and even modelling unnecessary”...
THINK ABOUT WOOD, THINK ABOUT METAL
Manon de BoerIn a series of films in which we discover the portrait of a woman, Manon de Boer prolongs her experiments during the meeting with Robyn Schulkowsky. In Italy and then Germany, the rotation of the lens leads us in a false loop where the visible is metamorphosed by the audible...
FOUNTAIN
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte takes his morning shower in the public square fountain....
