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Mercado mixte, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist Mercado mixte, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

MERCADO MIXTE

Angel Vergara
Vergara is standing on a plaza and taking a stroll through the market and the street. He is holding a brush, which he is using to trace what he sees on an imaginary canvas. One half of the image is the actual video recording, and the other half is an animated version. Vergara gives two fish vendors a brush as well, which they use to do as he does, to imitate him...
La tombe de Marcel, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist La tombe de Marcel, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

LA TOMBE DE MARCEL

Angel Vergara
Vergara films Marcel Broodthaers’ grave. The front of the gravestone, a close-up of leaves, and the reverse of the gravestone are shown successively in three shots. On the reverse of the gravestone, several motifs om Marcel Broodthaers’ life and work are shown. Vergara brings the gravestone objectively into sight. The camera angle does not change in any of the three shots....

COUDES

Michel François
A pair of elbows, of which the owner is wearing a purple sweater, keeps robbing against a rough surface over and over again. Holes appear gradually on the fabric....

DON'T TRY

Claude Cattelain
Leaning backwards over the edge of a roof....

REPÈRES EXTATIQUES

Hänzel & Gretzel
Lies can bring happiness if you realise they are real! A series of panels where you can meet the ever-ecstatic Teresa de Avila, the mightily phlegmatic Anubis and other perverted figures of a strange third mind world....

1937 [INSTALLATION, ENGLISH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

ARPENTEUR

Michel François
A caterpillar is crawling over a geographical map, exploring the borders of the surface....

COMPTER JUSQU'À 10 EN REGARDANT L'OBJECTIF

Claude Cattelain
While driving a car on highway Cattelain tries to count up to 10 by looking at the camera objective....

IJSBREKER 12: DE KUNST VAN HET TAFELEN

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
A programme about dining, cooking and eating. An outlook on the kitchens and the tables of a cookery club and a restaurant, under the watching eye of lawyer and trendsetter John Bultinck...
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RAINBOW MARKET

Pascal Baes
A recording of a street performance by Aï Suzuki was edited with Baes’ typical time-lapse techniques into a kinetic staccato game with movement and space...