COLLECTION

TILAPIA

Crispin Yanisi
A boy who tries to get in touch with his culture through a specific fish and learn more about its history but is faced with the fact that he does not master his mother tongue. ...

TRAVELOGUE 5: DÉJÀ-VU

Stefaan Decostere - Elie Peeters
‘Déjà-vu’ deals with virtual tourism in Japan and is based on the idea of being somewhere else without having to leave your homeland...

Leopold 1eme, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

LEOPOLD 1EME

Angel Vergara
Vergara is focusing here on the ties between art and the political system. He does this by showing texts about the financial support granted to Hendrik Conscience by Leopold I. By letting his brush move across the cinematic images, the artist is also suggesting that recorded reality embodies the pallet with which he is ’painting’....

GRIMOIRE MAGNÉTIQUE

Joëlle de La Casinière
Grimoire Magnétique is the first musical “video poème” by de La Casinière, in which painting, writing and music are synchronically arranged, according to the rhythm of a deliberate composition...

BESTE STEVE

Herman Asselberghs
In Beste Steve ('Dear Steve'), a man is smoothly dismantling a brand new MacBook Pro. Meanwhile, in a voice-over, a letter is read, addressed to Steve Jobs and signed by the artist. Beste Steve reveals the irreducible materiality of a tool that symbolises so-called immaterial labour...

THEME SONG

Vito Acconci
In ‘Theme Song’ Acconci most effectively plays-on the dynamic field of tension between ‘I’ and ‘you’, between the artist and the viewer. The artist lies on the ground in the living room, in front of the sofa. His face is filmed in close-up...

BUCHAREST 8 MARCH 2022

Mira Sanders
In the video Bucharest 8 March 2022, we listen to a voice message that shares city experiences and impressions from a walk in Bucharest city centre. Throughout the message, we understand that it is the first time that the narrator has been there...

Gand Est, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GAND EST

Angel Vergara
Vergara filmed this piece in looking eastward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition held in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...

REEL TO REEL

Teresa Cos
Accompanied by a solemn chant - which slowly becomes the feedback sound of a distorted guitar in loop - the miniature boats of the Mini-Europe theme park in Brussels appear one after the other, seamlessly. The models fade into each other intersecting reflections of great European landscapes, leaving the way to an eerie underwater world...

FUJI SAN

Bernard Gigounon
The animation in this video was put together with images of Mount Fuji found on the internet. Mount Fuji is the largest symmetrical object on the planet; images taken from any side can be perfectly superposed. This video rules negates the contemplative aspect in these pictures, as the Fuji monument becomes mobile and pivots. ...