COLLECTIE

SUPERPOSITION

Filip Francis
This work is the result of a collaboration between Filip Francis, Luc Deleu and Wout Vercammen. It is an early experiment with image in image, split screen, zoom in, fading, overlaps and other techniques that made the medium video—just out of the cradle in the 1970s—so exciting. The three artists took the camera and set out with great enthusiasm...

RANDOM WALK

Pascal Baes
A random tour through the visual world of Pascal Baes: images showing his fascination for wriggling, squirming life, tantrist diagrams and psychedelic spirals, microbiological systems and chemical bonds are alternated with edited film fragments from the performances by Aï Suzuki...

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...

Yolande de Bontridder, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

YOLANDE DE BONTRIDDER

Angel Vergara
Yolande De Bontridder, former director of the gallery Archetype who specializes in collaborations between artists and enterprises, is questioned about the artist’s freedom. She states that there is a freedom in creation and life itself...

Shelly Silver, TALK, 1980 © the artist

TALK

Shelly Silver

Off the Record, Wendy Morris, 2008 © the artist & producer

OFF THE RECORD

Wendy Morris
’Off the Record’ explores the different experiences and treatment of black and white South African soldiers in Europe during World War I...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 20012009

Mira Sanders
The third 'Silent Letter' was written on January 19th, 2009. The inter- and subtitles refer to the act of drawing. A short way into the video, we see images of radio-commanded model airplanes. A fourth theme is made explicit here: the (clear) line. Throughout the letter, the line is connected with the theme of the border, to be defended by ''guards''....

MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER - AU STADE

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

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...

MY HEART OF MY COMING INTO BEING

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
A figure is sitting down and staring at the sun, while its thoughts mingle with the horizon. The figure simplifies itself to abstract shapes, colors, then nothing. After which the person exists again as an idea to live forever...