COLLECTIE

CAMERA OBSCURA

Michel Lorand
For ‘Camera Obscura’, Lorand made a night-time recording from a moving automobile, along an empty and unlit road, projected the dark images against a wall and filmed them again with a hand held camera...

EIGHT CHAPTERS IN FOUR MOVEMENTS

Teresa Cos
Eight Chapters in Four Movements is a performance transposed into video. London Bridge is crossed every morning at the same time by thousands of commuters forming a river moving unidirectionally South to North. The scene is iconic and has been impressed many times in the news, films, documentaries, lullabies and poetry...

Blue, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist

BLUE

Ria Pacquée
From her house, Ria Pacquée walks to the nearby art centre Extra City in Antwerp. She carries a long wooden lath that covers a large part of her face. While the setting might make one think of the typical comedy ladder drill, Pacquée performs her movements with precision and a deadpan seriousness....

INGAHY KAMA

Bie Michels
In the film Ingahy Kama, inhabitants from Madagascar and its capital Antananarivo read aloud (fragments of) the correspondence of James Cameron and other missionaries. The fragments refer directly to the series of 34 photographic prints of letters that are on view at the exhibition (the work Letters of Cameron and his Fellow Missionaries between 1825 and 1875 (2018)...

LA FARDE AUX CANARDS

Jacques Louis Nyst
'La farde aux canards’ combines ducks with an array of functional objects (a foot bath, electrical cables, and so on), entities whose literal meanings have nothing whatsoever to do with one another, and which in that sense, also remain 'constant’ in substance. Nyst’s combinations, however, generate new and different meanings and in this case, the viewer’s hilarity....

LESSER APES

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
Lesser Apes tells the story of a love affair between a primatologist, Farrah and a female bonobo ape, Meema. Bonobos are the species with which humans share the most DNA, but unlike our species, they are matriarchal, live without conflict, and are unabashedly sexual...

ENTHALTE AM TOTENMEHR

Harald Thys
'Enthalte am Totenmehr' is a found-footage video with on the background the sound of a car driving. More prominent on the foreground we hear a male Russian voice and a rambling female German voice. The film features images of typical German houses, hills, forests, revolting images of sick and dead people, children playing, girl gymnasts, etc...

MA MÈRE L'OYE

Thierry De Mey
A cinematic interpretation of the ballet by Maurice Ravel with the same name (in the New York Philharmonic version, directed by Pierre Boulez). The orchestral splendour of the ballet is translated into a multi-dimensional tableau of several screens and visual angles, divided into a number of episodes, inspired on the best-known fairy tales of Charles Perrault...

UNTITLED 5.03

Peter Downsbrough
During almost fifteen minutes the camera explores the transhipment buildings, warehouses and silos belonging to the Werf- en Vlasnatie in the port of Antwerp in endless, mainly horizontal travellings from a driving car. The endless docks turn into a poetical labyrinth with railway containers and trucks, loading docks, pallet boards and goods...

BERLAYMONT DREAMING

Justin Bennett
The Berlaymont building, seat of the European Commission, is a symbolic centre for the European quarter of Brussels as well as for Europe itself. Formally interesting is the fact that the original modernist architecture has been renovated and forseen with a new ‘skin’ or rather an armour plating, changing the outward appearance while preserving the inner form...