COLLECTIE

L'ŒIL DU CYCLOPE

Jen Debauche
"One move breaking with alienation and the repeatedly mechanical gestures of labour and, where needed, society and that which it tends to sever from the world. One radical move hence choosing to restore ties with this material, concrete world of landscapes and textures: a walk, a simple walk, a recovery of this lesser yet inaugurating movement, constituent of mankind...

DESSINE-MOI UN SOUVENIR

Miléna Desse
Anchoring its subject in the intimate relationship between the filmmaker and her grandmother, Dessine-moi un souvenir is an attempt to question memory and its transmission on a personal as well as inter-generational and political level....

LES DOUBRES

Thomas Bernardet - Laurent Vicente - Aymeric de Tapol
Grinding, sliding, leaping: skateboarding is definitely the subject here. In February 2000, after reading the complete works of Baudrillard, two characters and a camera re-enact the practice in an indoor setting. Boardless, objectless skateboarding, detached from any specific site, except everyday life.Thus everyday places and objects may become spaces to be activated...

Poison Petals, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

POISON PETALS

Peter Finnemore
Two young girls in camouflage battle dress try to break all the glass panels of a greenhouse....

OWNER OF THE VOYAGE

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Since 1992, Roy Villevoye has frequently visited Papua, the former Dutch New Guinea. Visual artist Jan Dietvorst has joined him regularly; together they produce an oeuvre of films that deal with the influences to which the local people, the Asmat, have been exposed since their first contact with Western outsiders in the 1950s...

INSERT COIN FOR LOVE

Hans Op de Beeck
The coin drops into the slot machine and a scene reminiscent of a peepshow appears. A woman rotates on a red velvet podium. She looks bored and refuses to perform. The work also exists as a single channel video projection. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

SOUS LES CORDES

Claude Cattelain
Running underneath a net of ropes....

IMITATION DE JÉSUS-CHRIST, ETC.

Jacques Lennep
Jacques Lennep creates a farcical imitation of Christ based on a bust of Jacques-Louis David by François Rude and the Ecce homo in the École de Saint-Sulpice....

KUNST EN CENSUUR (GROOT KEMPISCHE CULTUURDAGEN)

Jef Cornelis
In the spring of 1970 the 24th edition of the Culture Days of the Greater Kempen took place in Hilvarenbeek, in the southern part of the Netherlands, just over the border with Belgium. For the current art events programme Zoeklicht Cornelis made a short television report about the event that features some eminent figures in the world of art...

April 2nd, 1994, Shelly Silver © the artist

APRIL 2ND

Shelly Silver
"In April 2nd, Silver follows a series of men around the Marais district of Paris. From a suspicious policeman to a well dressed man who quickly disappears into a department store, to a guy in jeans who desperately runs into the street to get away from her, the tape begins with a series of short and apparently failed relationships...