COLLECTIE

CORREDOR

Emilio López-Menchero
Playing with the Spanish homonym of the words corridor and runner, Emilio López-Menchero runs till he loses his breath on the never ending corridors of an former East-Berlin communist building. Like, other early works by López-Menchero, the video recordings maps 1:1 the duration of the action and the space where the action takes place....

JOUR DE FÊTE

Bernard Gigounon
In this video Gigounon once again ventures on the broad footpath between reality and imagination. Science-fiction worlds are all around us, the only thing we have to do is allow our imagination to run freely. Gigounon backs us up with the assistance of a couple of simple video effects, so we can let go of the trivialities of reality, even for an instant...

Hans Martens, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

HANS MARTENS

Angel Vergara
According to Hans Martens, art should be synonymous with freedom, but this does not necessarily mean that freedom is art. He holds on to the – in his opinion – romantic opinion that the artist is one of the last figures in our society able to act in total liberty....

CIRCUS

Stefka Benisheva
CIRCUS is a film aware of itself being a film. It follows peripheral thoughts and reflects on all these days around....

IMPERIAL VALLEY (CULTIVATED RUN-OFF)

Lukas Marxt
Accompanied by baleful, alarming, whistlingbooming electro sounds (Jung An Tagen), a speedy drone flight over California´s Imperial Valley becomes a journey in an extinct, abstract, uncanny, hostile landscape: a dystopian science fiction scenario, anchored in the reality of the present. (Source: Michelle Koch, Diagonale 2018)...

SPACES THESIS PART 3 (SUMMER 1)

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

L'ART BANLIEUE (OU LA BANLIEUE DE L'ART)

Jacques Lizène
In 1974 Lizène declares himself a part of the suburbs (banlieue) of art. performanceFor him, mediocrity is no refuge, but the hardest path. At the beginning of this video he warns us : “the artist of mediocrity has more rights to fame and money than the talented one who can be simply satisfied with his art”...

Les amours, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

LES AMOURS

Angel Vergara
Images of lions in the wild are combined with media images of Dutch- and French-speaking politicians, journalists and media personalities. On the soundtrack lions roaring can be heard sporadically while the artist traces the movie images with gestures as though painting...

O (ZERO)

Emilio López-Menchero
Part of the Mirror Mode series, O (zero) is a short video by Emilio López-Menchero. The fix camera films the artist’s body and more precisely his abdomen. While establishing a relation with the reversed screen display of the camera, the artist try to move his body in order to delimit the frame of the camera with his belly button....

LOST POETS

André Colinet
André Colinet presents a disturbing video, dedicated to a city under siege. Raising painful questions about the conflicts that divide people and nations, the film maker has made a demanding film that is open to several interpretations. Its clean mise en scène is simple and never seeks to please. It reminds the viewer that only rigour serves a poetic writing...