COLLECTION

LENS

Boris Van der Avoort
Patiently compiled Super-8 images were edited according to the passionate pattern of ‘Music for 18 Musicians’ by Steve Reich. Starting from the image of an eye in close-up, ‘Lens’ presents a kaleidoscope and subjective representation of nature, the city and mankind...

LEEDSTAPE

Cel Crabeels
The people that move through Leeds seem to have a purpose, they are going somewhere. The artist chose not to. He carried out interventions at various times and places in the public space of the city. They became slightly disturbing when obstructing the natural flow of people, things and situations...

Jérôme/Grégoire, 2008, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

JÉRÔME/GRÉGOIRE

Angel Vergara
With a brush, Angel Vergara traces the images of a video-recording of the hands of a father and son entwined in play. The screen-shot is framed upright. Here artist’s eye moves the social and political issues he encounters on the street and in the media, towards a more private scene....

ZEEDIJK KNOKKE-HEIST

Danny Matthys
The video starts from four videotapes, shot from a car (left, right, front and back) leaving the sea-front promenade at Knokke-Heist. The perception of this straight street is first of all analysed into four components by four cameras...

THE MARCH, THE BURDEN, THE DESERT, THE BOREDOM, THE ANGER

Els Dietvorst
A documentary fiction with non-professional actors about their lives and occupations in a poor neighbourhood in Brussels....

TEDDY DOG MOTHER

Messieurs Delmotte
A toy animal lies on a black background. Slowly, it moves shivering. When the camera zooms in, we see a knife going through its chest. The formerly rather small looking peluch animal is in fact a lot larger then it seemed. It even gives birth to Messieurs Delmotte himself. The work is part of Delmotte’s early ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

City of Progress, 2008-2010 Justin Bennett © the artist(s) & producer(s)

CITY OF PROGRESS

Justin Bennett
"A city could start like this drawing: first there`s an empty space and then an event: a dot on the paper." The animated film ’City of Progress’ traces the growth of an imaginary city as it expands from a single dot into a proliferation of lines and geometric forms, representing the physical development of a city...

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...

THRU

Peter Downsbrough
THRU is a dialectic investigation of two urban locations, one inside, the other outside. The video was conceived as a double projection, partly taking the designated space – the exhibition space at Argos – as its subject. The image alternates in a symmetrical rhythm between long, inert and twilit panoramas of the exhibition space and short, static shots of a nearby, busy street...

THIEVERY AND SONGS

Gernot Wieland
In Thievery and Songs Gernot Wieland has made an exceptionally beautiful, tragicomic and humerous work, framed by the story of a dancer, Hilde Holger, who had to flee from Austria into exile in Bombay in 1938 because she was jewish.
 This collage of moving images is composed of Super 8 film, video, watercolours, drawings, Claymation and his father´s photos...