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VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): DIALOGUE AVEC UNE CAMÉRA
Jacques LennepA mixture between a camera study and a performance wherein the artist communicates with the camera in sign language using flags to communicate his message....
HOMMAGE À … III
Lili DujourieThe five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. In Hommage à … III, Dujourie develops a recurrent strategy of her work: drawing attention to the space beyond the visual field...
HEY! HET IS... HUM... DINGES... HUM... TARZAN!
Emilio López-MencheroThe starting point of the group show Over the Edges (2000) is the notion of corner. The curator of the show Jan Hoet wanted to highlight the corners of the city as structural accents...
BAVURES D'ESCARGOTS
Jacques LennepSnails crawl over the artist’s body and are turned into a green mush. The sludge is skilfully spread on the ground in the shape of a spiral. The work appears to be a reference to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jelly....
Staging Silence, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam
STAGING SILENCE (1)
Hans Op de BeeckAfter experiencing many similar public places, the artist found that they collectively lingered in his memory as abstracted, archetypal spaces. These formed the starting point of ’Staging Silence’, an ambiguous piece featuring an eclectix mix of ridiculous and serious images, the concrete and fantasy...
FIGURES D'OUBLI
Claude BouchéA young man called Pierre has disappeared after making a film on industrial archeology. François, the film's backer, uses all possible means to trace Pierre. He closely scrutinises the disused sites that Pierre, before him, must have frequented and questions all those who knew him before he disappeared. François has a second film, also made by Pierre, to help him in his search...
ZOLANG ER SCHEEPSBOUWERS ZINGEN
Jan VrommanThe decline of the shipbuilding industry induced director Vromman to tell the story of the Boelwerf, Belgium’s last active shipyard. At the same time, this particular story runs parallel to a part of the general social-economic history: it tells the tale of belief in unlimited expansion turned into uncertainty and social uprising...
PALE PEKO BANTU
Bram Van Paesschen‘Pale Peko Bantu Mambo Ayi Kosake’ (‘Wherever There Are People, Problems Are Never Lacking’) proposes, in the artist’s typically tongue-in-cheek way, an extreme case of how far the rapport of a documentary filmmaker and his subject, along with his subject’s identification with the story, can go...
PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 2 : COB'HULK
Stéphane Aubier - Vincent PatarIn ‘Cob’Hulk’, Cowboy swallows a meteoroid, and every time he is antagonized, he undergoes a transformation and regresses in the evolution chain, as far as becoming a lizard. Fortunately, he spits out the meteoroid and becomes normal again...
