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TOKYO GIANTS
Nicolas ProvostProvost shot this final part of the 'Plot Point Trilogy' in Tokyo. He here presents the man in the street as a film protagonist whose reality lies somewhere between a dream and a nightmare...
MARIA GAAT NAAR SCHOOL
Edurne Rubio - Maria JerezThe children of V-tex school in Kortrijk, teach Dutch to Maria Jerez. During three weeks the roles of education change: 33 children teach and one adult learns. During this change of roles, the matter is not the transfer of symmetrical power, but the establishment of a fragile situation for all parties, a space where nobody knows....
Jean-François Fourtou et Simons, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
JEAN-FRANÇOIS FOURTOU ET HENRI SIMONS
Angel VergaraJean-François Fourtou is a French artist living in Madrid (ES) and Marrakech (MA). In 2006, he developed an exhibition in the shop-windows of the former Gallery Anspach in Brussels. Fourtou first speaks about this project and previous ones...
UBUNDU
Jelena JurešaJelena Jureša’s Ubundu, a film poem filmed at Antwerp Zoo, portrays the okapi, an animal exhibited for the first time in Antwerp in 1919 (the nine-month-old animal was an instant sensation, but within a month it grew weaker and eventually died)...
L'INVENTION DE LA BOUÉE
Jacques LennepLennep relates how and why one day his father invented the life belt....
Inventur / Invocation. I have read ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist
INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE READ ...
Ralo MayerFrom science-fiction novels to scientific articles, wikipedia entries to bank statements, billboards to poetry, Mayer blends the personal with the impersonal. Pre-existing associations with the word ’read’ and the process of reading are questioned when the verb is combined with unexpected ’texts’ – concrete, a face, a body...
Familia, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
FAMILIA
Angel VergaraTwo families are presented. They are sitting together at the table and looking at photo albums. With a brush, Vergara follows their contours and movements...
OEDIPUS REX
Claudio PazienzaConceived to be projected onto a 12m x 3,80m screen, these images accompany the performance of the opera-oratorio by Stravinsky. The different sequences evoke Belgium as a country with its back against the wall, keeping up a placid and almost resigned attitude nevertheless. Just like Thebes, the city which was ravished by the plague....
