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Palais Royal, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PALAIS ROYAL
Angel VergaraIn ’Palais Royal’ several people are posing in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels. The spectrum is diverse. Families with young children as well as three sailors are shown onscreen. In the meantime, traffic goes up and down Koningsstraat and Paleizenplein....
VIOLIN FASE
Eric Pauwels - Eric Pauwels - Eric PauwelsA solo in two movements; dance and camera. Eric Pauwels twirls the camera around the body of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. What we see is not the geometrical and minimalist choreographic structure, but a possessed woman, bathing in sweat, exploring the boundaries of physical exhaustion. A solo in two movements: the dance and the camera. Four uninterrupted takes...
Retouches et Réparations, 2001-2008, Boris Lehman © the artist
RETOUCHES ET RÉPARATIONS
Boris Lehman"As I was shooting ’Story of My Life As Told by My Photographs’, part of which recounted my memories and the settings of my early childhood, I met up with my ‘oldest’ friend Richard Kenigsman (literally, ‘King’s Man’), whom I had known for more than sixty years. He had given me a photo album...
DETERMINATION (1)
Hans Op de BeeckA nine-year-old boy is looking at the spectator through the rear window of a car. The car is travelling on a stretch of motorway; the audience is positioned as though they are riding directly behind. The boy remains in position, staring at the viewer throughout the duration of the work. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...
WHITE LADY
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystA videodance inspired by David Lynch’s 'The Elephant Man'. Though not clearly obvious in the piece, Nyst presents five tableaux that recall John Merrick’s mother’s life. The piece, openly Romantic and dramatic, flirts with the border of kitsch...
MOTION FOR STOCKHAUSEN
Anouk De ClercqConceived originally as a backdrop projection for the dance performance Chorée, this video is in itself a study on choreography. The image source is the oldest Belgian film footage, Film Médicaux (1904), shot by Arthur Van Gehuchten, Belgian anatomist, neurologist and pioneer of clinical cinematography. The movements of hysterical patients are carefully reframed in a dignifying way...
CHERRY BLOSSOMS
An van. DienderenCarly is working late at night in one of the many translation booths in a dark plenary hall of the European Parliament. It is the only place worldwide where everyday work is translated in 23 languages. Carly exerts to translate a documentary about Japanese subculture. Without specific interest for the theme she translates monotonically from the Japanese...
nostalgia, 2009, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp
NOSTALGIA
Pieter GeenenEtymologically, the word ’nostalgia’ is derived from the Greek words ’nostos’ and ’algos’, meaning ’return’ and ’suffering’...
LIAISONS DANGEREUSES
Charley CaseSymbols such as the Star of David, the Taijitu (the yin-yang sign) and the swastika pop up on the screen, alternating ever faster, with glowing colours illuminating their contours. Accompanied by repetitive string and deep bass-driven music, the images have a hypnotizing effect. The pace of their movement accelerates with the music until all symbols merge in one light-pulsing sphere....
