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DETERMINATION (4)
Hans Op de BeeckThis video image is projected life-size on a wall. It’s an eight-minute, real-time recording, appearing on a white surface, then disappearing and repeating itself without end; very important to realise: this is not a loop. We are confronted heads on with a family (a man, a woman, 2 little children) running towards us, but on the spot, without actually moving closer...
THE CURSE
Harald Thys - Jos De GruyterIn the same minimalist style that would later on characterize 'The Bucket’ (2001) and 'The Spinning Wheel’ (2002), 'The Curse’ tells Maria’s unhappy story. After giving birth to her first child, she has mysteriously lost her husband’s love. The situation is as tragic as absurd, the universe it deals with as grotesque and enigmatic as alienating...
JÉSUS... BORDEL !
Jacques LennepJesus... Bordel ! is a street performance in Brussels. Lennep pays a prostitute to take her place behind the window, with a crown of thorns on his head....
'SUB-'
Hans Op de BeeckThis video installation, a 3 by 2.5m film projection, provides us with a view to an escalator in an endless downward movement. The cold, self-reflecting strips light slides towards us over the stairs, and betrays a downward movement. In this symmetrical image only the metal of the escalator stairs can be seen: no actors, no props...
NATIONAL LIBERATION FOOTBALL
Amina MeniaOn November 18, 2009, the Algerian football team won a match against Egypt by a goal to nil, thus ensuring a place in the 2010 World Cup. Public jubilation was all the greater, given that both countries were experiencing political tensions...
WALKER FILMS
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotWalker is a series of video essays that document contemporary architectures. Each film is based on improvised shots by two cameramen walking through a specific construction, using only one camera. As they progress, the walkers exchange the camera, observing and filming the space around them and each other...
PRESSURE
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeA portrait of Mumbai as a pressure cooker. The city could boil over at any moment. The attacks in November 2008 only serve to up the ante. Pressure feels as if the makers, and the viewers too, have suddenly landed in a pandemonium: Mumbai (Bombay). Life in this human ants’ nest occasionally turns out to be still rural and small-town...
Atomium In/Out, 2006, Marie-Françoise Plissart © the artist
ATOMIUM IN/OUT
Marie-Françoise PlissartDesigned by engineer André Waterkeyn and built by architects André and Jean Polack for the 1958 World Exhibition of Brussels, a molecule of iron, enlarged 165 billion times, was chosen to represent the science of the future. Once a symbol of collective utopia, the Atomium is today a monument with a life of its own...
La galerista y el farmaceutico, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA GALERISTA Y EL FARMACEUTICO
Angel VergaraWe can see a man and a woman. They are reading and looking into the camera. The onscreen image consists of two juxtaposed images with the same background, generating a mirroring or folded effect which is added to by the fact that both images include Vergara’s hand following the lines and shapes with a brush...
