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CITY OF THE STEPPES
Peter BrosensBetween the abandoned Soviet military infrastructure and the collapsed centrally planned economy on the one hand, and the pressures of a Western model on the other, the inhabitants of the city and the nomads of the steppes are trying to give new meaning to both their history and daily existence...
LOSS
Hans Op de BeeckThe work of Hans op de Beeck always breathes an atmosphere of profound emptiness. Characters, without words and totally alienated, stride through desolate landscapes and situations, out of which all hope seems to have leaked away. This is a world, seemingly lavished in the acid of everyday life, drenched in the liquid of loss...
Brokenlight, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist
BROKEN LIGHT
Ria PacquéeThe image of a light that flashes on and off in the shower of a hotel room alternates with the image of a man parading in a ritualistic and outlandish procession, his face entirely covered with gold paint....
LA VIE SEXUELLE DES BELGES 1950-1978
Jan BucquoyJan Bocquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels...
THE CONTENT OF THE STATE
Grace SchwindtA two screen installation video piece. Screen 1: The Content of the State is Family, but also Law, Health, Religion, Jew, German, Nation, Race, People, Human Kind, Ancestor, Men, We, You (plural), You (singular). A convergence to and distancing from a document (“Explanatory Leaflet for Those Getting Married”, published in Germany in approx...
WHITE CLOUD
Emmanuel Van der AuweraIn a remote industrial site in Inner Mongolia, miners extract a strategic resource essential to our way of life under dramatic human and environmental conditions. This is where 80% of rare earth minerals, essential to the manufacture of digital technologies, come from. A miner working on the site shares his thoughts on his life and working conditions...
Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike. Marx/ Eisenstein/ Das Kapital, 2008, Alexander Kluge © the artist & producers
NACHRICHTEN AUS DER IDEOLOGISCHEN ANTIKE. MARX/ EISENSTEIN/ DAS KAPITAL
Alexander KlugeEighty years after Sergei Eisenstein’s plans to make Karl Marx’s ’Das Kapital’ into a film, the German film-maker Alexander Kluge (1932) breathed new life into the project. The starting point was Eisenstein’s intention to turn Marx’s seminal work into a movie and add a montage inspired by James Joyce (who Eisenstein met in 1929)...
Celebration, Hans Op de Beeck, 2008. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam
CELEBRATION
Hans Op de BeeckIn harsh desert surroundings, with rocks and cactuses in the background, a wedding or some kind of celebration is taking place. It is blisteringly hot. The camera is mounted on a tripod.The scene is a tableau vivant: a living painting in which neither the view nor the picture frame changes...
ARRANGEMENT IN GREY
Emmanuel Van der AuweraThe title Arrangement in Grey is an allusion to the painter James Abbott Whistler, who used it to emphasize the ascendance of abstract over figurative composition...
