COLLECTION

A SWARM OF TWO

Aernout Mik
The terror threat has resulted in evermore demands for control, and still less room for the unexpected...

ROMANTICOS DE LAS MARISMAS

Luc Gobyn - Luke Aaron Clark - Luismí Garcia
When you look at a bull and you see the gleam in its eyes, it feels like you’re having a conversation with it. The feeling it conveys makes you feel like the king of the world. At the same time filling you with humility, because you know how much you owe to the bull....

(PAS) MON PAYS, PART I AND II

Bie Michels
Bie Michels was born and raised in Congo, in a house on the campus of the current University of Kinshasa (former 'Lovanium', the first university in the country, 1954-1971). As the title indicates, (Pas) Mon Pays, Part I and II is in two parts...

STRUGGLE FOR LIFE

Pascal Bernier
Three short video sketches made with minimal means and based on samples from various media (mainly the internet and pop music), creating a form of ‘garage- video’, with no other ambition, according to Bernier himself, than the generation of specific emotions which might also pop up when listening to loud rock music or watching pornographic films...

KORAAL

Lili Dujourie
Koraal (Coral, 1978) is constructed around the close-up image of fingers slowly peeling an orange, separating the segments of flesh and throwing the fruit’s sections, one by one, off-camera. This concrete action that doesn't represent anything but itself emits a heightened sensuality...

A SMALL TOWN IN SPAIN, TRIPTYCH

Jan Vromman
In A Small Town in Spain, triptych we look back to the old- and recent history of the small town Trujillo (Extremadura, Spain). With this retrospection we stay, overwhelmed by tender memories, always close to its inhabitants. ...

Madame going to a dogshow, Ria Pacquée, 1988. Courtesy the Artist

MADAME GOING TO A DOG SHOW

Ria Pacquée
During the second half of the eighthies Pacquée created her ’Madame’- works, in which she takes on the character of a lonely middle-aged lady. In this case the camera records Madame’s presence at a dog show. Madame walks around the hall where the event’s taking place. She looks at pictures of different breeds of dogs and takes some brochures...

ROBERT, JUNE 1996 - ROBERT, SEPTEMBER 2007

Manon de Boer
"This is the first of De Boer’s filmic portraits of friends, realised in two sessions, eleven years apart. Each time, Robert is asked to play his guitar, which is outside of the frame, and filmed on b&w film for the duration of one Super-8 reel film or 2’30”." (Manon de Boer)...

SAFE SEX

Pascal Bernier
‘Safe sex’ talks about drifting off from plain sexuality to obscene asexuality. The playthings and the erotic objects presented by Pascal Bernier are on the borderline between allegory and silent objectivity. The elements evoke a polarised universe in which play and death, pain and the commonplace are reflected in each other...

ONEINDIGE BEPERKING, ETCETERA, 40.700 X9…

Filip Francis
The artist writes the equation space = time over and over again, on giant white canvases. He makes geometrical figures with them. He repeats this kind of gesture, by drawing the number nine infinite times....