COLLECTIE

Bureaux Vilvoorde, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

BUREAUX VILVOORDE

Angel Vergara
Vergara films an office building in Vilvoorde, with traffic on a four-lane motorway in the foreground. He films from the roadside, and the camera angle is hardly ever changed during the recording. As with ’Tino cordonnier’ and ’Sofia caissière’, this work consists of a single shot and concerns a simple recording of a working environment...

À MA D'AZIL

Thomas Israël - Charley Case
The Grotto of Mas-d'Azil is a crossed cavern dug by the river Arize in the French Pyrenees. During the prehistoric and different historic eras, it was inhabited. Furthermore, it's the only European grotto which is accessible by car and the route allowed to discover its first inhabitants such as mammoths, bears and rhinos...

URINAL AND BREAD

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte puts slices of bread in the drains of a public toilet near a church and films the people leaving the toilet. Afterwards he picks the slices up and takes them home. Delmotte makes them into a ball and squeezes the ball empty in his mouth. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

RACINES LOINTAINES

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
I travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn’t a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception of this quest and in doing so, in a roundabout way they shared some of their visions of the world and of existence...

Brokenlight, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist

BROKEN LIGHT

Ria Pacquée
The 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....

YOKO OSHA

Lazara Rosell Albear
Lazara Rosell Albear returns to the magical–realistic world of Santeria of Regla de Osha: the mysterious religion practiced in secret by more than 70% of the Cuban population in the director's home country Cuba...

Poison Petals, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

POISON PETALS

Peter Finnemore
Two young girls in camouflage battle dress try to break all the glass panels of a greenhouse....

VIDÉO HEBDO 57

Claude Cattelain
When a jew's harp is played also the image vibrates....

MAX BILL

Jef Cornelis
Max Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...

PORTEMANTEAU

Messieurs Delmotte
How to hang one’s jacket without actually taking it off? Messieurs Delmotte exhibits a wide range of possibilities and techniques...