COLLECTION

BELONG

Shelly Silver
Behind her desk, probably in her university office, a woman talks about belonging and argues that nobody really belongs to something nowadays. While she speaks, Silver edited old photographs of people from disparate origins as well as different cities and landscapes. The final static shot shows the Seine banks, the flag of France and a woman playing with her dog....

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): LA CIBLE

Jacques Lennep
A registration of a conceptual performance wherein the artist tries to shoot a bullseye, hanged up in a tree....

POLITIE

Luc Deleu
In the short film ’Politie’ Deleu follows around different types of police men, while they are performing their tasks. From another car the artist films a police van driving around and supervising the streets. A police officer is handing out tickets, while another one is regulating the traffic. On a highway two police men are on the scene of an accident with a truck...

BALLOON MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte arrives at the scene, which is located in a park, wearing a costume covered with balloons. Fiercely he starts to pierce them with two needles. With each balloon that is punctured, his appearance becomes more visible. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

THE BOAT

Messieurs Delmotte
A scene at night. All dressed in black, Messieurs Delmotte is sitting in a red inflatable boat, slowly floating on what seems to be a calm lake. Suddenly, he jumps up and cuts the boat with two knifes. But the tiny vessel does not sink at al… This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

Avant-garde citizens: Janneke’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: JANNEKE’S STORY

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
With families and holiday-makers passing her as she relates her tale, Janneke’s story seems out of place on a beach. Janneke is a Dutch activist who, after protesting against the treatment of interned immigrants, was herself imprisoned under the Immigration Act for refusing to present her name and passport...

INNERSIDE THE BULLS

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

AS SOL TO EVA

Teresa Cos
The appropriation of the famous letter that Sol LeWitt wrote in 1965 to artist and friend Eva Hesse is at the center of this work. In what seems to be a Skype conversation with a distant friend -wearing a t-shirt printed with LeWitt’s hand drawing as it appears on the manuscript- the letter becomes a two way pep talk in the mouth of an online oracle...

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...