COLLECTION

MSR

Wim Catrysse
Main Supply Route: The route designated within conflict areas upon which the bulk of traffic flows in support of military operations. MSR unfolds amidst a turbulent and crippling setting: the Kuwaiti desert. Once halted along the 'Military Convoy MSR' we are confronted with the travails and tactics of a group of 'survivors', i.e...

ONE SECOND OF SILENCE

Edith Dekyndt
In May 2008, Edith Dekyndt was involved in an Erasmus workshop which took place in Enschede (NL)...

IMITATION DE JÉSUS-CHRIST (HOMMAGE À YVES SOMVILLE)

Jacques Lennep
In the seventies Jacques Lennep worked on his « Musée de l’homme», a series of exhibitions, performances and videos in which eight figures were shown over the course of time in an artistic context, according to a wayward conception of sociological art...

nocturne (lampedusa - fort europe), 2006, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp

NOCTURNE

Pieter Geenen
On the Italian island of Lampedusa, nighttime has gained a tragic connotation over the past several years. This pile of rocks (less than 20 km2) south of Sicily is Europe’s closest point to North Africa. nocturne (lampedusa - fort europa) captures the island’s schizophrenic, tense nocturnal atmosphere. An infrared camera monitors several spots on and around the island...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 1. WANNEER HET WOORD “KUNST“ TOT KOPEN AANZET

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When the word ’art’ urges someone to buy’ is a report on a painting and framework factory, producing 300.000 oil paintings each year. Outworkers produce 50 pieces a day...

100 JAAR / 100 ANS

Jan Vromman
A simple but utterly moving ‘in memorium’ for 100 years of cinema as wel as 100 years of exploitation of the working class. In 1995, it was exactly hundred years ago that the Frères Lumière made their first film, ‘Workers Leaving the Factory’: the birth of cinema...

MAISHA NI KARATA, LA VIE EST UN JEU DE CARTES

Philippe de Pierpont
In 1991, de Pierpont worked for the first time with six forward young boys, living in a tight group on the streets of Bujumbura in Burundi. In 1994 he went back to meet the six, and after that visit it took almost ten years before he saw them again. In ‘Maisha ni Karata’ images of the last encounters alternate with images from ’91 and ’94...

L'ÂGE DE SABLE

Charley Case
A young boy is walking in the desert. Is he lost? Filmed in warm sepia colours, we see him dragging a copy of an antique Greek vase. What is his destiny? Under a burning sun, the boy is huffing and puffing himself forward. Will he reach his goal, whatever that one is? The longer the way, the more difficult he finds it dragging the vase through the loose sand. Will he make it or rather give up?...

FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 13

Claude Cattelain
Doing a video each day. Day 13: following with the camera some tissues pushed forward by the wind....

TASTE THE WORLD

Wendy Morris
‘Taste the World’ explores tourist notions of the ‘Third World’ as a playground for Europe. The title is derived from a promotional brochure in which travellers are encouraged to “taste the world”. The subtext makes clear that this ‘world’ is mainly there for the Eurostractrates with their unbridled leisure time and financial means...