COLLECTION

TWO SKIES

Lukas Marxt
For this piece, Marxt filmed the horizon from a drilling platform in the Gulf of Bothnia (Sweden) at two different times of day: dawn and dusk. In the editing, the artist flipped the images of the extremely dark, mysterious rippling water horizontally in order to stick them oppositely to each other...

Walking with Light, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

WALKING WITH LIGHT

Peter Finnemore
On a sunny day, Finnemore zigzags around his garden with a mirror: the reflected light is recorded by a fix camera....

THE EPHEMERIST

An van. Dienderen - Didier Volckaert
“Ne détruisez jamais un document” Ferdinand Vander Haeghen (1830 – 1913) pleaded when he started the archive “vliegende bladen” (ephemera) as a Ghent university librarian in the 19th century...

ANDRÉ ANDÉR

Karen Vanderborght
Portrait of the town fool and the nutty film student behind the camera. Does the person in front of the camera becomes an ‘object’ as soon as he or she is transformed into an ‘image’? This work was the final dissertation of Vanderborght....

HABITER LES FISSURES

Miléna Desse
In Brussels, a former factory bears witness to an intense and now bygone industrial era. Today, it is home to spontaneous flora that has found its way into the cracks in the bricks and concrete, as well as to the people who live there and create alternatives to what this city has to offer...

EGO SUMO VERSION 1 (2003)

Emilio López-Menchero
In 2003, López-Menchero was invited by the curator Madeleine Santandréa to show a new work in the Galerie –1 at CIVA, in Brussels. In this context, the artist showed a series of drawing called Tussen tussen ou l’entre-deux that employed the Indian ink technique...

VENTRILOQUIST BIRD

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video-performance in which Messieurs Delmotte, standing in a park, lips the sound of a bird....

LETTER HOME

An van. Dienderen
Letter Home is a film letter - without the use of narration - in which the touristic images of the artist's trip to Japan are digitally distorted. The basic strategy of this type of digital corruption is copying, which is used in the film to challenge the western perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’...

MY HEART OF MY COMING INTO BEING

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
A figure is sitting down and staring at the sun, while its thoughts mingle with the horizon. The figure simplifies itself to abstract shapes, colors, then nothing. After which the person exists again as an idea to live forever...

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...