COLLECTION

UNDEAD VOICES

Maria Iorio - Raphaël Cuomo
Undead Voices focuses on the archive as a subject rather than a repository of material, and invites us to reflect critically on the absences it encompasses, on the politics of knowledge, on possible alternative ways of writing history. The starting point is a Super 8mm amateur film, Donne emergete!, made in 1975 by filmmaker Isabella Bruno...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER - QUOTATIONS

Mira Sanders
The text is a series of quotations from Salman Rushdie, Han Lorzing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Slavoj Žižek. All quotations concern the concept of (invisible) frontiers, and therefore of landscapes themselves....

IMPOSITIONS

Philippe Van Snick
A woman is reading at a garden table. Every minute she changes the side she is sitting at, until she’s back where she started. The camera starts turning round to film her and her book. Afterwards she starts looking at photographs of herself, sitting at another table but with the same book in her hands....

STAR SYSTEM

Edith Dekyndt
Edith Dekyndt’s work seeks to move us by means of nothing or almost nothing. Things are made and unmade very quickly, and it is this speed between appearance and disappearance, sometimes slowed down to be lost, which makes up Dekyndt’s images. She is interested in simple things, things that already exist in everyday life, things we normally wouldn’t notice they exist...

DETERMINATION (1)

Hans Op de Beeck
A nine-year-old boy is looking at the spectator through the rear window of a car. The car is travelling on a stretch of motorway; the audience is positioned as though they are riding directly behind. The boy remains in position, staring at the viewer throughout the duration of the work. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

Bruxelles-Antwerpen, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)

BRUXELLES-ANTWERPEN

Angel Vergara
From the Linkebeek station to Antwerp in slightly more than twenty seconds. Out of the train window, Vergara filmed the landscape as it passed him. Afterwards, he accelerated the movie’s tempo to such extent that the journey is rendered barely recognisable. What is left is a smear, an impression of a journey...

THE CRY

Ria Pacquée
In various outdoor locations, a cry is performed. As the locations differ – under trees, in a rough wooden structure, in a field – the distance of the performer from the camera also differs, altering the volume and proximity of the sound. The performer also varies the vocal qualities of the cry, including its length, tone, pitch and volume...

JUMPY FISH

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte pushes along a carp until it reaches a pond. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

DE STOEL WAAROP IK ZIT / LA CHAISE SUR LAQUELLE JE SUIS ASSIS

Jan Vromman
Jan Vromman is not actively concerned with the creation of an oeuvre; he rather makes an impulsive use of wide ranging styles and gestures. The DVD ’De stoel waarop ik zit’ (‘The Chair I Sit Upon’) consists of two parts...

YOURS,

Eva Giolo - Rebecca Jane Arthur - Katja Mater - Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat - Maaike Neuville
A group of artists are invited to be inspired by the work of the well-known, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, specifically her film News from Home (1976). The busy city of New York serves as the film’s main character. Meanwhile, we hear Akerman’s voice reading letters from her mother in Brussels...