COLLECTIE

ON SCULPTURES

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...

(GEDULD) WACHTEN, ATTENDRE, WAIT, WARTEN

Daniël Dewaele
During the twentieth century art has, for a great deal, shifted towards conceptual art, where the finished execution of an art work is of less importance then the idea behind it. This definition could be applied to Dewaele’s video. The image of a doorbell that says ’wachten’ (wait) is shown. So the viewer waits... and waits, but the image never changes...

UNTITLED (SHADOW)

Wim Catrysse
In Untitled (Shadow) (1998, single-channel-installation) the camera moves constantly in a circular corridor, like in Pursuit, an installation Catrysse made in the same year. The camera departs from standstill and starts to move faster and faster. Behind the endless bend the viewer notices an unidentifiable shadow that seems to be pursued by the camera...

MONT AIGUILLE, GRENOBLE, FRANCE, NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO HELL, ACCORDING TO DANTE

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
When visiting the Mont Aiguille where according to Dante the entrance to Hell can be found, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...

Veronique Depiece, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

VÉRONIQUE DEPIESSE

Angel Vergara
Véronique Depiesse is asked whether artists are free, liberal, libertarian or something else. According to her, they are opportunists "in the positive sense of the word". She is looking for an alternative word for the term freedom....

TOPIC I

Pascal Baes
The French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’s ’Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seems to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

DANCE OF THE CIGARETTE

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

COUPURE LINKS / COUPURE RECHTS

Danny Matthys
A stately street in Ghent, along two sides of the canal, filmed with a keen interest for the numerous bridges....

THE MUSICAL CHAIR

Ruben Bellinkx
In the film installation "The Musical Chair" we see a chair being attacked by three dogs. The dogs compete with each other to gain possession of it. Eventually the fight results in the destruction of the chair. Each part gives a specific view on this event.PART I: In this part we only see one dog wich constantly barks at a chair that stands in te middle of the space...

CONTAINER 09: OVER ROES

Jef Cornelis
A fragment from Aldoux Huxley‘s ’The Doors of Perception’ is the starting-point for a reflection on intoxication. Intoxication might be perceived as one of the universal longings of mankind. The Romantic tradition of Baudelaire talks of “artificial paradises”, but outside the Western society intoxication has a much more ambivalent function than escapism alone...