COLLECTIE

INSTRUCTION FOR USE

Edith Dekyndt
A silent animated drawing created out of manuals for consumption objects for public or private use. Dekyndt combines an inventory of daily instruction, but, in this way, the slide show questions our formatted consumeristic experience and faces us to the aesthetics of how-to included in ordinary packagings and their universal codified language....

ROBERT, SEPTEMBER 2007

Manon de Boer
This series started in 1996. Robert is portrayed in three sessions, as indicated by the title dates (1996, 2001, 2007). Each time, Robert is asked to play his guitar, which is outside of the frame, and filmed on b&w film for the duration of one Super-8 reel film or 2’30”....

JUMPY FISH

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte pushes along a carp until it reaches a pond. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

Caregivers, 2008, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

CAREGIVERS

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
'Caregivers' presents the Ukrainian women who have chosen voluntary exile to work as caregivers for the elderly in Italy, where they earn enough to provide financial support to their families back home in Ukraine. Living on the margins, they are solitary and elusive figures whose roles are defined but whose individual identities are not being recognized by the host country...

SIX MONITEURS À LA UNE

Alain Géronnez
In this installation with six screens, Géronnez follows the principle of the collage: the six screens alternately show incoherent images that fade into images which together constitute a landscape. The focus is on the green, Western European landscape, an image the artist himself films, but he also adopts it from for example drawings by Hergé...

The Interpreter, 2009 Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo © the artist(s) & producer(s)

THE INTERPRETER

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
The Interpreter proposes a perspective on mobility towards Europe as it can be perceived and experienced from the Maghreb. The video evokes the time between a clandestine crossing of the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the 90’s and a recent forced return. It is based on elements from an ongoing field research by geographer Makrem Mandhouj...

EDENLOOP

Cel Crabeels
’Edenloop’ suggests an itinerary, undertaken through the dense bottom growth of a forest. Several occurrences under way add a layered meaning to the whole. The trajectory evolves towards a turning point, from which it will arrive at its original position. This work should be fit into a given context, that of a video installation. It can be projected or shown on a monitor....

ROLAND VAN DEN BERGHE

Jef Cornelis
An interview with Belgian visual artist Roland Van Den Berghe, as part of the exhibition ‘Free as the Air and Function’. Van den Berghe, wearing a Queen Fabiola mask, discusses the way icons and doctrines are created in an artificial way and the role art plays to break through these straitjackets...

INFORMATOR

Marie André