COLLECTION

DEAR ADVISOR

Vincent Meessen
Meessen’s work is set in Chandigarh, the paragon of the modernist city planned by Le Corbusier in the 1950ies as a symbol of the new, progressive nation of India who had just emerged from its colonial past...

HOUSEGAME

Harald Thys
'Housegame' is a found-footage video with a voice-over of two friends that can only hear each other through a telephone connection. The two select a house and a character from a series of images and make up a story about what they see. It is as if they are able to enter houses from a distance and spy on people....

LE MOYEN DE S'ENTENDRE

Michel Bonnemaison
The actor Enrique Ariman in a dinner-jacket writhes on the telephone in a setting of electronic graphics with tangy colours. "Everyone talks on the telephone and no one ever talks about the telephone. Everyone talks about television and television talks for everyone. It’s through the telephone that television arrived, even if we’re told quite the opposite...

MOUNE Ô

Maxime Jean-Baptiste
"I close my eyes. The crowd makes me smile, breaks my body, and that's the end". By presenting the festive events which escorted the projection of the film Jean Galmot aventurier by Alain Maline, where the father's filmmaker played a role, the images of Moune Ô reveal the survival of the colonial inheritance within a Western collective unconscious always marked of stereotypes...

LES VACANCES DE MC LUHAN

Alain Géronnez
A video by Géronnez and Van Ré, two members of Groupe 50/04. Recorded from the inside of a car, the viewer sees a hand that sticks a picture postcard on the dashboard. On the card a historical building is depicted. The car starts moving, until it reaches the portrayed building. Then the card gets replaced by a new one that also depicts an historical building...

HÉLÈNE

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another, or a shift in frames of mind...

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PLOT POINT

Nicolas Provost
The crowded streets of New York City turn into fictive, cinematographic scenery. Provost is playing with our collective memory, its cinematic codes and narrative languages questioning the boundaries between a staged, suggested reality and authentic fiction...

RAOUL DE KEYSER

Jef Cornelis
A view on Raoul de Keyser’s exhibition in the contemporary art section of the Royal Museum in Antwerp: views of the museum, entrance hall and rooms housing the Raoul de Keyser exhibition. Raoul de Keyser strolls with Jef Cornelis across a football pitch in Deinze talking about the influence of football on his paintings. We see a few paintings on football pitch themes....

ONTMOETING MET DESIGN + HEDENDAAGSE BRITSE GRAFIEK

Jef Cornelis
In 1971 a furniture shop in Mechelen organized the exhibition 'Ontmoeting met Design' ('Meeting Design'), a group exhibition with chairs and seats designed by Le Corbusier, Michaël Thonet, Gerrit Rietveld, Marcel Breuer and others. The exhibition was intended to make some of the 19th and 20th-century classics of design more popular with the general public...

GE KENT DE WEG EN DE TAAL

Jef Cornelis
This is a film on country life, on daily life in a village. Someone ’who knows the way and the language’ can feel at home somewhere or is at least familiar with the vicinity. This popular expression suggests the relations between people within the seclusion of their village...