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TOPIC II

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’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

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Didier Volckaert

HOMMAGE À … III

Lili Dujourie
The five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. In Hommage à … III, Dujourie develops a recurrent strategy of her work: drawing attention to the space beyond the visual field...

A Message from Space in my Backyard, 2008-2009, Krassimir Terizev © the artist

A MESSAGE FROM SPACE IN MY BACKYARD

Krassimir Terziev
"It is far from rational from the perspective of single human life to imagine that a piece of space shuttle, after being launched some 20 years ago, would hit a woman in her backyard in California, or a piece of derelict Russian satellite, after orbiting the earth for a several decades, would reach its final destination in the desert of Australia in front of local shepherds...

Shooting into the Sun, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

SHOOTING INTO THE SUN

Ria Pacquée
A video piece made of transferred slide show pictures that Ria Pacquée took over the course of years, a photographic series that is still on-going. In different parts of the world – Belgium, Europe, Marocco, India and different parts in Asia – the artist took frontal pictures of the sun...

BALLOON MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte arrives at the scene, which is located in a park, wearing a costume covered with balloons. Fiercely he starts to pierce them with two needles. With each balloon that is punctured, his appearance becomes more visible. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

Kolonel Korsakov, Frank Theys, 1992. Courtesy the Artist

KOLONEL KORSAKOV

Frank Theys

LIGHT DISPLACEMENT

Meggy Rustamova
The starting point for this film were Meggy Rustamova’s many attempts to photograph a tree in Hiroshima, Japan. Aspects of war, escapism and fear are expressed in this audiovisual trip. The atomic bomb in Japan and the current nuclear threat between the US and North Korea is translated into the white, overexposed photographs, which fade into complete 'white-out' in the film...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 27042008

Mira Sanders
The first ’Silent Letter’ was written on April 24th, 2008. Officials are obstrucing passing people: they are not allowed to walk across a public square. However, an introductory note by the artist is dated 2007...

BRUSSEL, SCHERVEN VAN GELUK

Jef Cornelis
’Brussels, fragments of happiness’ is no ordinary documentary on the Belgian capital...