COLLECTIE

REFLECTED PIXEL

Claude Cattelain
The camera is filming its reflection until it bumps it to reveal the next mirror ......

THE NEW FREEDOM FOUNDERS

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
In this three channel video installation, Duke and Battersby explore basic philosophical issues such as time, language, revolution, and the paradigms of insanity. Each of the three channels runs a different short narrative. The narratives deploy tropes from genres as diverse as science fiction, French New Wave Cinema, Hollywood Film and Television, and 70’s conceptual video...

nocturne (lampedusa - fort europe), 2006, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp

NOCTURNE

Pieter Geenen
On the Italian island of Lampedusa, nighttime has gained a tragic connotation over the past several years. This pile of rocks (less than 20 km2) south of Sicily is Europe’s closest point to North Africa. nocturne (lampedusa - fort europa) captures the island’s schizophrenic, tense nocturnal atmosphere. An infrared camera monitors several spots on and around the island...

(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...

DE STRAAT

Jef Cornelis
There is not much more left of the street than – to use a term by Le Corbusier – a machine of movement, equipped to make traffic run smoothly. The street in its original and spontaneous form, as a breeding ground for new life, is restrained. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of new living...

LA FIN DU MONDE

Jacques Lennep
Lennep adds a tiny extra to Gustave Courbet’s famous Origin of the World....

BAVURES D'ESCARGOTS

Jacques Lennep
Snails crawl over the artist’s body and are turned into a green mush. The sludge is skilfully spread on the ground in the shape of a spiral. The work appears to be a reference to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jelly....

BEAUTY PLUS PITY

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
The contemporary fables of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby propose that existence is abject, farcical, and messy. In their richly textured videos, Duke and Battersby employ live action footage, scavenged images, and simple animations to create episodic structures that evince a simultaneously utopian and dystopian world view...

MOUNE Ô

Maxime Jean-Baptiste
"I close my eyes. The crowd makes me smile, breaks my body, and that's the end". By presenting the festive events which escorted the projection of the film Jean Galmot aventurier by Alain Maline, where the father's filmmaker played a role, the images of Moune Ô reveal the survival of the colonial inheritance within a Western collective unconscious always marked of stereotypes...

UTOPIA ANDATA E RITORNO

Walter Marchetti
"Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into a future presence, that is an objective future...