COLLECTION

PIECES OF BARCELONA

Alberta Sessa
Walks around a city; movement, people. A variety of moving and motionless objects. The gaze tries to catch up with what the city has to offer but the perspective is constantly crossed by passers-by, from left to right and right to left. For a moment they’re caught in the frame, a moment later they continue their journey and life outside the frame...

HALF-WEG

Jan De Kegel
The Halfweg (‘Halfway’) is a hidden side street in Ghent, where Jan de Kegel himself shares a home with his 86-year-old grandmother. This seemingly dead-end street, without a final destination, serves as a guideline and a background for a Lynchian story about silence, confusion and astonishment. In his solitude an old man loses his grip on reality after the decease of his wife...

CONFUSING DRUM

Jan Locus
In Belfast the night before July 12th – the annual Protestant celebration – massive bonfires are lit in many Protestant neighborhoods.These towering structures, built months in advance, are mostly made up of wooden pallets and car tires with some reaching over 30 metres tall...

INSERT COIN HIGHWAY CAR

Hans Op de Beeck
The viewer drops a coin in the slot machine and an image of a small child in a kiddie car appears. The car’s movement tips the child back and forth. Instead of enjoying the ride, the child appears sullen and unhappy. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

SLEEPING PORNOGRAPHY

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is sleeping on top of a television set that plays some vintage black and white pornography. But what is that liquid coming out of the tube he is holding? This video is part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

Gonzalez 1, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GONZALEZ 1

Angel Vergara
Black and white images illustrate the term of office of the Spanish prime minister Felipe González Márquez, who was Prime Minister of Spain from the end of 1982 until 1996. With his brush, Vergara traces the cinematic images while he and the images are behind a glass screen. Vergara is suggesting that he takes his paint from the cinematic images, eventually leaving it on the glass....

untitled part 4: terra incognita, Jayce Salloum, 2005 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 4: TERRA INCOGNITA

Jayce Salloum
terra incognita focuses on fragments of histories, of pre-European contact, contact, and settlement of the Kelowna (south-central B.C.) area though the accounts of several N’Syilx’cen (Okanagan Nation) speakers...

IDIOT'S BREW

Antonin De Bemels
The videos by Antonin de Bemels are - literally - attempts: explorations of the body and gestures, of rhythm and movement. He is fascinated by the importance of a single image and interweaves all kinds of visual stimuli in a complex associative network by means of the 'scrubbing' effect, the visual equivalent of auditive 'scratching'...

LE JEU DE LA GRENOUILLE

Jacques Lennep
In Le jeu de la grenouille the artist argues that he is not Claude Monet. He goes to visit Monet’s garden and find out that frogs dominate the garden. The artist can’t bear the sound they make and dressed up as a frog he decides to burn one of Monet’s “works”....

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 3. WANNEER HET KUNSTBEZIT EEN PRESTIGEZAAK IS

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?", ’When art collection is not a matter of prestige’ is an interview with Frans Baudouin, the curator of the Rubens museum in Antwerp, on the occasion of the acquisition of a high-priced self-portrait by Rubens...