COLLECTION

PIECES OF BARCELONA

Alberta Sessa
Walks around a city; movement, people. A variety of moving and motionless objects. The gaze tries to catch up with what the city has to offer but the perspective is constantly crossed by passers-by, from left to right and right to left. For a moment they’re caught in the frame, a moment later they continue their journey and life outside the frame...

DE ZANGER DEMODOKOS

Jan Vromman
'De zanger Demodokos' returns to the basics of our culture. In a short meditation about the role of text and music, of seeing and blindness, Jan Vromman evokes the blind singer from Homer - the darling of the muses. In this touching short film the blind Tcha Limberger sings the Homer's text, and plays Kris Defoort's music on clarinet. "The worst crime man commits is against himself...

Inventur / Invocation. I have calculated ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist

INVENTUR / INVOCATION

Ralo Mayer
This work consists of four video streams in which Kroot Juurak, wearing a white coat and seated in various positions, recites lists in a monotonous, almost robotic voice, reminding of a mantra. Devoid of any facial or vocal expression, her voice denies the phrases individual identities but treats them all alike...

ZEEDIJK KNOKKE-HEIST

Danny Matthys
The video starts from four videotapes, shot from a car (left, right, front and back) leaving the sea-front promenade at Knokke-Heist. The perception of this straight street is first of all analysed into four components by four cameras...

Schrodinger's Cat, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

SCHRODINGER'S CAT

Peter Finnemore
Peter Finnemore gives his comic visual interpretation of the famous paradox elaborated by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 to criticize the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics...

AGAIN ON THE SEAS

Joëlle de La Casinière
While they were in Peru in 1973-74 to shoot movies, artists and poets Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison decided to invite photographer and film director Carlos Ferrand on a trip across the Andes and through the coastal desert along the Pacific Ocean with a Leica camera and a precise mission: constantly photographing out the window of the riding Land-Rover...

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART I: SILENT RUNNING

Jayce Salloum
’Silent Running’ opens on a scene of running water. Nature, therefore, comes first , accompanied by old choral music. This is what preceeds the ascent of Man. Then, from running water we pass on to landscape. River banks, trees go by. Suddenly an abrupt stop, the image freezes : enough nature. Feet and legs of passers-by stream along the sidewalk like the water following a flow...

GAZES

Roy Villevoye
Papuan men and women are portrayed frontally for a set length of time. They look us directly in the eye. Their persistent gaze produces feelings of empathy and unease....

STANLEY BROUWN 6 STAPPEN 10X (MTL GALLERY BRUSSEL) + KAREL APPEL

Jef Cornelis
Since the early Sixties, the autodidact Dutch conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn (°1935) is internationally known for his practice based on the acts of displacement, walking and measuring. For instance, he once announced that his solo exhibition was taking place in every shoe shop in Amsterdam...

WANDELING

Rudi Rommens
The camera is moving slowly along a ’polder’ landscape. The viewer gets to see the things the hiker does. There’s no road nor any human presence, only nature....