COLLECTIE

STANDARD TRIANGULATION

Adam Leech
Presented in an ingenious mise-en-scene, Adam Leech introduces the concept of triangulation. Such a “trialogue” can describe social, as well as legal, governmental or family situations better than a dialogue. A jazz singer is shown. While she performs jazz standards, she’s distracted by something off screen...

ERNA LENDVAI-DIRCKSEN. FLANDERN. DAS GERMANISCHE VOLKSGESICHT

Gorik Lindemans
Gorik Lindemans is obsessed with books, or rather with looking at books. In his video he guides us through this fascinating picture-book ‘Flandren. Das Germanische Volksgesicht’, with splendid photographs of Flemish farmers and landscapes from the early forties by Erna Lendvai-Dircksen...

JUMPY RABBIT

Messieurs Delmotte
A white rabbit in a grass field is forced to jump by means of two elastic strings attached to its body. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

ENJAMBEMENT

Lili Dujourie
We are in a room with parquetry flooring. The artist, clothed in shirt and jeans, is moving about on the floor with the restlessness of the insomniac, performing sequences from her repertoire of horizontal motions developed in previous work. But when 'she' rolls over, we realize Dujourie has substituted a male model for herself...

ROOKGORDIJN BOVEN BRUSSEL (HET INNO-DOSSIER HEROPEND)

Bram Van Paesschen
The cause of Europe’s largest department store fire remains unsolved even today. On May 22, 1967 the Brussels branch of the chain ‘A l’Innovation’ burned down to its foundations. The reason for the fire, which claimed more than three hundred lives, was arson, as far as one can tell today...

WHITE LADY

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
A 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...

Suarez, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

SUAREZ

Angel Vergara
After Franco’s death, Juan Carlos took the oath as king of Spain. He replaced the incumbent prime minister Carlos Arias with Adolfo Suárez, who would restore the civil liberties, and allow socialist and communist parties again. Parliamentary elections followed in 1977. With his brush, Vergara traces the cinematic images, while he and the images are behind a glass screen...

THE ROSES

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte goes to a public garden and with a pair of gardening shears he cuts all the roses from a rose bed. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: MUSÉE D’ART DU XVIIE SIÈCLE

Jef Cornelis
Views of the 17th century ’Eagles Department’ in Antwerp: façade, wooden crates, postcards of 17th-century works on the walls and a small garden. Marcel Broodthaers is whitewashing the inscription ’Département des Aigles’ written on the fence in the garden...

NORTHERN DRIFT

Alexis Destoop
Reporting from the future, an Arctic exploration around an undefined border turns into a philosophical investigation of mankind and its environment. Assembled from personal experiences, collected testimonies and local stories, the film presents a subjective portrait of the contentious Norwegian-Russian borderland, one of hte world’s last frontiers...