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LOST NATION, JANUARY 1999
Johan GrimonprezIn January 1999, at the height of the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage asked me if’d be in for a trip to Lost Nation. They explained this was part of a project called LOST NATION they were setting up in Brussels: a place slash library slash installation about vanished nations such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, USSR, and Zaire...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER - QUOTATIONS
Mira SandersThe text is a series of quotations from Salman Rushdie, Han Lorzing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Slavoj Žižek. All quotations concern the concept of (invisible) frontiers, and therefore of landscapes themselves....
Leopold 1eme, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LEOPOLD 1EME
Angel VergaraVergara 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’....
PHILIPPE, CARRÉ BLANC… CARRÉ NOIR
Jean-Claude Riga‘Philippe, carré blanc… Carré noir’ is built along the thin line that separates reality from fiction; documentary from drama. Philippe, who also appears in L’Oeil et la Cage, is our guide in this descent into the world of drugs in Belgium at the beginning of the 1980’s, a subject Riga treats with extreme crudity and straightforwardness...
INLAND VOYAGES IN AN INLAND VOYAGES
Mira SandersNavigating. We rarely think about it, and yet for most of us it is an everyday activity. Internet, Google Maps, GPS, etcetera: who can do without them? Mira Sanders was deeply touched by Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel story An Inland Voyage (1878). In it Stevenson relates how with a friend he paddled in a canoe from the Belgian town of Antwerp to Pontoise in France...
OUTWARD-BOUND
Wim CatrysseOutward-bound was shot over a twelve-day period in September 2010 which Catrysse spent on the flanks of the Kawah Ijen, a volcano in eastern Java that is known locally as a site of sulfur mining – an ancient industry that, somewhat inexplicably, has become a tourist attraction of sorts...
FRANCOPHONES
Messieurs DelmotteWith a gas flame on the background and while holding a cigarette, Delmotte talks to the viewer in French about different cities. He calls Montréal the little Paris of North-America and thanks Paris for its crossroads. Delmotte then proclaims that Brussels is a deaf city that will end up dying in tradition. He repeats his statements a few times and then he leaves the scene...
Deneuve - Revue de détails, André S. Labarthe, 1984. Courtesy the Artist
DENEUVE - REVUE DE DÉTAILS
André S. LabartheAgainst a background of muted jazz music, Deneuve, still very young, reads out a description of a beautiful person as elegant and well-formed as a Greek statue. Labarthe films her in extreme close-up: her face fills the screen; much of the time he shows only her speaking lips or even just an eye...
140 BALLETJES
Luc CoeckelberghsHundred-and-forty white balls are floating in a hall. Attached to the ceiling with strings of different lengths, from low to high, they are hanging motionless in space. The camera records their presence from across the room, but also from above and from the side. Passing by slowly, the camera is suggesting movement. The balls interact with the patterns on the floor and the walls...
