COLLECTION

THE NAMES HAVE CHANGED, INCLUDING MY OWN, AND TRUTHS HAVE BEEN ALTERED

Onyeka Igwe
This is a story of the artist’s grandfather, the story of the ‘land’ and the story of an encounter with Nigeria—retold at a single point in time, in a single place. The artist is trying to tell a truth in as many ways as possible...

FRONTAL TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte balances stiff as a rod, on the tips of his toes, with his forehead leaned into a tree....

1937 [INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

JE SUIS CONTENT

Bernard Mulliez
In different short sequences, a man talks directly in the camera about human management that organises its discourse towards success, dictates values, roles and objectives reuniting individuals in a group. Leadership is recognised as a more appropriate means to satisfy the longings of a group than allowing its individual members to provide for their own needs themselves...

ONE BY ONE

Marie Voignier - Vassilis Salpistis
One by one is a fifteen minute experimental film-collage, which is composed by a number of testimonies and texts relating to historical events and crisis in Greece. The assemblage converges the exploration of contemporary applications of the function of myth. To a great extend consisting of filmed photographs, even when in motion the images of the film suggest the stillness of a stable shot...

TSUMI (THE MIS-STEP)

Pascal Baes
Experimenting with the use of a stop motion technique that freezes movement through the use of long exposures and slow shutter speed, Baes filmed during three months his intimate family live. A soft-porn autobiographical documentary: the axing of wood, a performance by Baes’ life companion Aï Suzuki, love-making and birth-giving and the philosophy that no pleasure can be without crime....

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNSTENAAR IN ALLE ERNST SPEELT [NOS VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art Criticism?”, the given answer this time being ’When the artist is toying around in all seriousness’...

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...

BERLAYMONT DREAMING

Justin Bennett
The Berlaymont building, seat of the European Commission, is a symbolic centre for the European quarter of Brussels as well as for Europe itself. Formally interesting is the fact that the original modernist architecture has been renovated and forseen with a new ‘skin’ or rather an armour plating, changing the outward appearance while preserving the inner form...

ONEINDIGE BEPERKING, ETCETERA, 40.700 X9…

Filip Francis
The artist writes the equation space = time over and over again, on giant white canvases. He makes geometrical figures with them. He repeats this kind of gesture, by drawing the number nine infinite times....