COLLECTIE

Jean-François Fourtou et Simons, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

JEAN-FRANÇOIS FOURTOU ET HENRI SIMONS

Angel Vergara
Jean-François Fourtou is a French artist living in Madrid (ES) and Marrakech (MA). In 2006, he developed an exhibition in the shop-windows of the former Gallery Anspach in Brussels. Fourtou first speaks about this project and previous ones...

DETERMINATION (1)

Hans Op de Beeck
A nine-year-old boy is looking at the spectator through the rear window of a car. The car is travelling on a stretch of motorway; the audience is positioned as though they are riding directly behind. The boy remains in position, staring at the viewer throughout the duration of the work. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

WALKER, LE COLISÉE

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film documents the Colisée, created by the architect Kisho Kurokawa, and its surroundings. The two protagonists wander around the spaceship of a building and its moonlike terrain, trying to apprehend its form and situation....

TSÉ TSÉ

Emilio López-Menchero
At the height of mad cow’s disease, of swine fever and dioxin crisis, the artist crossed the Dutch borders with Holland and Germany with a collection of live tsé tsé flies in order to show them to the tiny German village of Borken where the curators Jan Hoet and Michel Dewilde organised the group show Artline 5 around the dialectic of the notions of nature and architecture...

DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 4

Jacques Lennep
Another part in this series of short sketches wherein the artist brings an homage to some of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. Somewhere in between performance, lecture and slapstick, Lennep honors amongst others the heritage of James Ensor....

Atomium In/Out, 2006, Marie-Françoise Plissart © the artist

ATOMIUM IN/OUT

Marie-Françoise Plissart
Designed by engineer André Waterkeyn and built by architects André and Jean Polack for the 1958 World Exhibition of Brussels, a molecule of iron, enlarged 165 billion times, was chosen to represent the science of the future. Once a symbol of collective utopia, the Atomium is today a monument with a life of its own...

DE MENS IN HET DIER

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
‘De mens in het dier’ (‘The human person within the animal’) is somewhere between film and computer animation. The concept of the work is based on the book ‘Laws of thought’, by the 19th century English mathematician George Boole...

IN LIMBO

Simon Arazi
A satirical homage to contemporary propaganda doctrine, this film consists entirely of intercepted American satellite feeds: unfiltered and raw live-footage of news as well as corporate and governmental broadcasts, destined for the employees and trainees of multinational companies and law enforcement institutions...

Zapatero, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

EL PERDEDOR SOCIAL E INÚTIL CULTURAL

Angel Vergara
’El perdedor social e inútil cultural’ is a video installation shown in 2010 in ARCO Madrid at Stella Lohaus. For this installation, Vergara collected historical images related to figures in Spain’s recent history (i.e. since the fall of Franco) combined with images he associated with that history...

UNE FEMME ENTREPRENANTE

Sven Augustijnen
After weaving a tempting web of reality and fiction around Brussels Kunstberg (or Mont des Arts) during ’Mission Mont des Arts’ (2002), Augustijnen points his arrows in ’Une femme entreprenante’ on WIELS, a new centre for contemporary art in Brussels, and more particularly to its key figure, Sophie Le Clercq, building promoter and the true ‘force motrice’ behind...