COLLECTION

Biscuter, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

BISCUTER

Angel Vergara
Archive images depict a race between little cars in the streets of Castelló. They are doing laps in the city. The Biscuter used to have a two-stroke engine and is a striking piece of heritage dating from Franco’s Spain in the fifties. The images function as central starting point in the exhibition, which is also considered a kind of circuit....

BREATH

Claude Cattelain
A digital representation of the artist breathing.  ...

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...

AUTOPORTRAIT CONTRE NATURE

Michel François
A character in a blue shirt is filmed with a fixed camera, in slow motion. We hear the echo of his footsteps. It’s the artist himself: this is an “auto portrait contra nature”. François lights up a cigarette while glass bottles start raining down around him: they shatter noisily, yet miraculously without ever hitting him...

THE TROPHY

Ruben Bellinkx
In the film "The Trophy" we see a deer’s head, which is alive instead of stuffed, hanging on the wall. The deer stares ahead motionless, making it difficult to distinguish whether it is alive or stuffed. Suddenly we can see the other side of the wall. There the same deer stands alone in a bare room with its head disappearing into the wall...

SHIFT OF ATTENTION

Manon de Boer
In one take of 50 minutes a woman is filmed while listening to an actor who’s reading a transcription of her own monologues of memories of Los Angeles. Her stories were recorded on several occasions during two years after she came back from a long stay in Los Angeles...

TWO HANDS

Fabio Wuytack
Two Palestinian hands. In Palestine there are only four heart surgeons. Mohammed Tamim is one of them. In 2003 he came to Belgium to specialize in paediatric surgery. The second Intifada has turned Mohammed into a war surgeon. Each day he fights his own battle, trying to achieve his dream. There are times when he works in the operating room for seven days a week...

FLASH BACK

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another, or a shift in frames of mind...

HOBBIT LOVE IS THE GREATEST LOVE

Steve Reinke
A desktop video in five parts: 1. My Calling Card – A remake of Adrian Piper’s seminal work of the same name. 2. The True Legend of Stereo – In which a venerable European artist, with the aid of simple geometric figures, explains things. 3. Trauma in Retrospect – In which Reinke, also with the aid of diagrams, explains other things. 4...

VROUW IN DE STRAAT

Karen Vanderborght
A video collage with running texts, that quote influent female artists, and juxtapositions of home moving style footages, still images and an inventory of Brussels cinematographic memories. The result is a conversation with three generations of godmothers, pictured under the influence of the first two feminist waves.  ...