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Anouk De ClercqA small white cross moves against an otherwise black, empty screen, then multiplies itself to become two crosses that dance around the screen together, only to then disappear altogether. The text was written and whispered by Anouk De Clercq herself. The music that one hears in the background was composed by Anton Aeki...
A CITY REMIX
Kurt D'HaeseleerAn answer to the genre of “city symphonies”, ‘A City Remix’ offers a look at the generic, expanded and ex/imploded contemporary cities. Sociological, urban, economical and personal patterns are woven into a work where each image relates both to every other image and to daily life. An attempt to show what our high-speed culture has made invisible...
CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 1)
Michel François- ’Frigolith’ (extract): Tiny Styrofoam balls, blasted by an invisible force. They seem caught in the screen. The fixed frame prevents us from seeing what they’re in, where they’re coming from. The tight framing closes the image in order to open it. - ’Passage nuageux’: A shadow is cast over a desert-mountain...
Y’A RIEN À VOIR
Laurent d'UrselThe work of Laurent d’Ursel might be considered a metonymy of art history, an amalgam of references from the domains of literature, painting and all the crossbreeds and the iconoclasts from the past century. Diverting linguistic elements into objects he strengthens the ties between literature and visual arts...
CANTAERT HUNTER 8906020
Ria PacquéeIn 'Cantaert Hunter 8906020’, a figure is depicted running through a cornfield. This figure is split into three, as the work cuts between three films of the woman running while wearing different clothes and hairstyles. In the streams, the corn leaves brush harshly across her face, simultaneously caressing and hitting her...
ATTICA
Manon de BoerIn collaboration with several musicians, de Boer staged a performance for camera of Frederic Rzewski’s 1972 composition ‘Attica’ as well as the related work, ‘Coming Together’, also composed in 1972. Rzewski, who was living in New York at the time, composed ‘Attica’ in a circular structure of euphoric crescendo and denouement...
WAX CANDLES
Messieurs DelmotteIn a church Delmotte cannot resist to blow out all of the candles. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
LE CYGNE ET SON IMAGE
Jacques Louis NystThe title in 'Le cygne et son image’ soon becomes the white canvas on which Nyst has drawn what appears at first as a tail or a path. The screen is horizontally divided in two, the lower part occupied by the canvas and the upper by Nyst’s naked body. When the swan the title refers to appears, it may seem that it is its own image that it contemplates on the white surface...
Philippe Bertels, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PHILIPPE BERTELS
Angel VergaraThe author Philippe Bertels draws a distinction between the ’self-made men’ and the ’not self-made men’. Artists are part of the latter. While he is trying to answer, he becomes embroiled in an argument with his companions in a night garden, and asks Michel François for assistance, eventually entering into a discussion with him as well....
FILIP VAN SNICK: STALL-OLOGY
Jef CornelisThe Belgian artist Philippe van Snick (°1946) uses paintings, installations and sculptures to explore, analyse and create spaces. Using minimal visual elements, he relates his works to the space where they are shown and inspires the viewer to have a personal and individual experience of his works...
