COLLECTIE

ALTOGETHER

Herman Asselberghs
The future is dark which is, on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.” With this observation as a starting-point, “Altogether” fully acknowledges the ideological impasse of the post 68-era...

MADAME P…

Eve Bonfanti

THE BENCH

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is lying under a bench. Suddenly he rises, making the piece of garden furniture turn over. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

MY BROTHER’S GARDENS

Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck based his video work on his short story by the same name, ‘My Brother’s Gardens’ (2001). In this narrative video work a group of young actors – narrators, as well as characters – move through simple backgrounds and scale models and a story is told about the complex relationship between three brothers: an identical twin and a third, autistic brother...

A PLACE TO BE

Peter Downsbrough
A Place to Be is a dialectical exploration of two specific locations and urban conditions, one on the interior, the other on the exterior, while the soundtrack moves back and forth between ambient sounds and music (Satie’s piano music for instance)...

BATTLES

Isabelle Tollenaere
Is a war ever truly over? Battles reveals a past that has not passed, by patiently observing the traces left behind by recent conflicts in the landscapes and communities at four different sites across Europe. A bomb, a bunker, a tank, a soldier – four archetypes of warfare lead us chapter by chapter to places in Europe where conflicts have occurred in the recent past...

IN THE ABSENCE OF HEROES (PART IV): WARFARE / A CASE FOR CONTEXT

Jayce Salloum
In the Absence of Heroes: Warfare/A Case for Context was part of a continuing series of works investigating social manifestations filling the gaps in our lives through media/corporate and government propagated images and idea(l)s. The videotapes present contextualized concepts/fragments of personal/emotional traumatic experiences and conflict...

VENISE (1 À 10)

Claude Cattelain
A series of videos realized during the residency “Résidence de Création – Projet Association” organized by (SIC) during Venice Biennale in 2013....

Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense, 1978, Boris Lehman © the artist

MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE

Boris Lehman
"’Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense’ is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, so named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film is composed of around 30 chapters interlinked like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, or an anthill of numerous and overlapping galaxies...

TAWANTINSUYU 1992-1492

Jef Cornelis
One of the films Cornelis made for the (Flemish) Belgian television about South America and the fine arts in that continent in particular. The motivation is the celebration of the discovery five hundred years ago of America. The makers strived to look at other aspects than those directly relating to the European standpoint...