COLLECTION

HOMME PORTANT

Boris Lehman
The man carrying his body, his reels of film, his bag and his old Nikon, is Boris Lehman, he’s also Sisyphus, Jesus Christ, and Ixion as told by Alfred Jarry in La Chandelle Verte. An essay on heaviness and lightness. The carrying man would like to fly, vanish into thin air, into light. When he meets another machine-man, who carries electronic pictures, his dream will come true...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 54. SCREEN SAVER

Steve Reinke
I am your screen saver. I am your therapist....

THE TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is attached to a tree with a string. He starts to move, jumping up and down until the string breaks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

SONNET

Lili Dujourie
A woman stands up in front of a bay window, walks, turns her back to us, smokes a cigarette, lingers overlooking the view of trees ... She uses a reflection in the window to create a mnemonic trace...

AKAROVA/BAUGNIET, L'ENTRE-DEUX-GUERRES

Ana Torfs - Jurgen Persijn
Based on eye-witness accounts and archival documents, this is a portrait of two important representatives of the Belgian avant-garde of the 1920s: Akarova, a dancer, and Marcel-Louis Baugniet, a painter and furniture designer. Using a black background and frontal light, the filming does not “correct” the reality of aging faces, but gives full play to memory...

FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 1

Messieurs Delmotte
’Facts and Gestures Vol. 1’ is a compilation tape. The different parts can also be ordered separately...

UNDERWATER

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte tries to get a grip on a rock under water, his face heading up stream. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

NOW WITH IN THREE PARTS

Peter Downsbrough
Now With returns to the motif of the dice. The multiple arrangements of a pair of dice, each equally valid, if not equally valuable, are clearly part of Downsbrough’s attraction to serial systems of arrangement...

ARRANGEMENT IN GREY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
The title Arrangement in Grey is an allusion to the painter James Abbott Whistler, who used it to emphasize the ascendance of abstract over figurative composition...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 6. WANNEER DE KUNST ZOET HOUDT

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When art keeps people satisfied’ is a short report about a creative centre in Ghent, subsidized by the Belgian Post’s social service, where postal workers can paint and sculpt in their spare time...