COLLECTIE

EFFEN SPIEGEL VAN EEN STILLE STROOM

Lili Dujourie
The first frame shows an empty interior. On the left there are a brightly lit surface and a mantel support on the floor; to the right stands a female figure clothed in shirt and jeans. The scale and perspective seem skewed, and it is not until she moves out of the visual field that we notice that the right half of the screen is a mirror reflecting the space behind the camera...

il y a pas de fumée sans feu, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

IL Y A PAS DE FUMÉE SANS FEU

Angel Vergara
Vergara’s alter ego Straatman seems to be sitting on a compost heap. However, white smoke is escaping from underneath the white canvas, and eventually the canvas catches fire. The smoke refers to the work of Marcel Broodthaers, who frequently used smoke as a motif....

CHRYSALIDES

Patrick Bernatchez
This trilogy of films takes the Fashion Plaza Building as its subject; the films were all shot on location there. Taken together, the films form a figurative, cinematic counterpoint to the abstract audio rendering of the facades in Fashion Plaza Nights...

MAMA BRAZIL

Luc Gobyn
Mama Brazil is a triptic travelmovie about the memorial (1994-2004) of the dead of Ayrton Senna. Each movie is a description of one weekend. 1. Belgium Senna Club is going from Brussels to Imola Italie. 2. A view of the Foundation Ayrton Senna and cemetery Morumbi, Sao Paulo Brasil. 3. Visiting of the Formule One Grand Prix of Brazil, Sao Paulo....

ENCLOSURE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte climbs onto a barbed wire fence, tries to keep his balance, but ends up in a pasture. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

COVERING #4: LAMPSHADES

Luc Compernol
‘Covering # 4: Lampshades’ is the fourth part in the ‘coverings’-series of Luc Compernol. In part one the term ‘covering’ stood for ‘covering a song’ (more precisely ‘Lovin’ you’ by Minnie Riperton). From the second part on, ‘covering’ was broadened to one of its other meanings, namely observing, watching closely...

DO YOU REMEMBER REVOLUTION

Loredana Bianconi
In her documentary ‘Do You Remember Revolution’, the Italian director Loredana Bianconi interviewed at length four women who actively participated in the Leftist Armed Struggle in the Italy of the 70ies. All of them were leading figures in the Red Brigades. One of them, Susanna, left the Brigades in 1975 to found Prima Linea...

INKTPOT

Luc Deleu - Filip Francis - De nieuwe Coloristen
In the dunes of the Belgian seaside town of Koksijde a bunker from World War II is with great deal of sense for detail transformed into a giant inkpot. This early video work is a collaboration between the utopian architect Luc Deleu, painter Filip Francis and the group ‘de nieuwe coloristen’ (translated as ‘the new colorists’)...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 90. VIDEO FOR INTELLECTUALS

Steve Reinke
Sometimes it appears we are reaching a period where our senses and minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation....

OOG EN HAND ALS UITDRUKKING 02

Jef Cornelis
For the art programme 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' Cornelis made two essayistic television reports in 1972 about the use of hands and eyes in the visual arts, “a way to look and to communicate.” Once more, 'Oog en hand als uitdrukking 02' ('Eye and hand as expression 02') is particularly free with regard to its format, bearing in mind the television standards of the time...