COLLECTIE

THE RABBIT AND THE TEASEL

Els Dietvorst
In a world where petty opinions, hysteria, commotion and emotion have become the norm and neo-liberal humanity is rapidly losing sight of the path to happiness, The Rabbit And The Teasel is a breath of fresh air. Fiction and autobiographical elements mingle in a lyrical tale that drags the viewer into a universe of beauty, death, and decay...

RAOUL DE KEYSER

Jef Cornelis
Jef Cornelis made this portrait of the famous Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser in 1971, on the occasion of his exhibition ‘Linnen dozen, sneden en zware kalklijnschilderijen’ (‘Linen boxes, cuts and heavy chalk line paintings') in the Plus-Kern Art centre in Ghent, Belgium...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - PORTRAIT DE FAMILLE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
A salesman suggests the viewer to buy a video camera, to make family portraits with. A stream of images of family members appear on the screen....

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ [ORIGINAL RUSSIAN VERSION]

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

WINDY APPEARANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
In front of his camera, Messieurs Delmotte poses in a park. With precision and highly concentrated, he licks cigarette rolling papers that he sticks onto his face. The wind plays an important role in this remarkable performance. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...

ONCE UPON A TIME

Emilio López-Menchero
When Gery van Tendeloo, the president of the association of collectors Liebaert Projects, proposed to give the city of Courtrai to Emilio López-Menchero, the artist immediately recalled that the city is known as the Texas of Flanders, but he also thought about Morris, the auteur of the comics series Lucky Luke...

STARRING

Koen Theys
The images for ’Starring’ were taken from famous filmposters, coming as well from European production companies as from Hollywood or Bollywood companies. Close-ups of famous movies stars, seemingly separated from their bodies, move very slowly across the screen. Their expressions change, from fear to anger to seriousness and so on...

LESSEN IN BESCHEIDENHEID

Stefaan Decostere
Decostere looks at the inherent paradox in the conception of the future by scientists from the San Francisco area, who praise the merits of an on-line virtual community which will ultimately allow users to never having to leave the periphery of their neighbourhoods...

STAND HERE AT THE EDGE

Andrea Geyer
When viewing a movie, what we know can foreclose the possibility of vision. ’Stand here at the Edge’, tries to construct an epistemological break, by simply suggesting to close ones eyes and challenge the entitlement and “knowledge” that so often comes with the familiarity of our gaze...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 19. INTRODUCTION TO THE LOGO

Steve Reinke
I am a person, a company, and an artist. (Otherwise I’d pay a lot more taxes.) As an artist, texts are produced under the authority of my name. It seemed appropriate to develop a logo....