COLLECTION

THE NAMES HAVE CHANGED, INCLUDING MY OWN, AND TRUTHS HAVE BEEN ALTERED

Onyeka Igwe
This is a story of the artist’s grandfather, the story of the ‘land’ and the story of an encounter with Nigeria—retold at a single point in time, in a single place. The artist is trying to tell a truth in as many ways as possible...

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....

FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 8

Claude Cattelain
Doing a video each day. Day 8: spreading a green tarpaulin on the sea....

Shelly Silver, SOUTHSIDE, 1978 © the artist

SOUTHSIDE

Shelly Silver

LUDUS PRO PATRIA

Mira Sanders

CONDUCTOR

Anouk De Clercq
A lightning conductor appears as a musical conductor for the cloud cover. At the core of an increasingly threatening blaze of fire and a whistling wind, a minuscule light has final call, until the violence of heaven discharges abruptly and the lightning conductor throws it all off-screen...

Les artistes, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

MONDAY: FIREWORK; TUESDAY: ILLUMINATIONS; WEDNESDAY: REVOLUTION

Angel Vergara
In the exhibition ’Monday: Firework; Tuesday: Illuminations; Wednesday: Revolution’, shown in Argos in spring 2010, Angel Vergara concentrated on history, and more specifically on the early days of the Belgian monarchy and its cultural, social-political and economic context...

KOEN THEYS

Jan Florizoone
Jan Florizoone enlarges his series of extremely personal, intimate portraits of artists (Franky DC, Gorik Lindemans, Ever Meulen) with a video on visual artist Koen Theys. Armed with a video camera, Florizoone follows Theys who is himself armed with a photo camera: this takes place at various locations in Brussels; at times with the cameraman getting in the way of the photographer...

TRACE

Peter Downsbrough
TRACE revisits the site of an earlier Downsbrough video, A] PART (2009). The location for both works, Brussels’s iconic Citroen garage, opened to great fanfare in 1934 as the largest automobile service center in Europe...

Promener les images, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PROMENER LES IMAGES

Angel Vergara
Vergara is walking around different locations in Antwerp, holding a series of empty frames. With the empty frames he is suggesting that the actual artistic content and input of his performances should be looked for in the city itself...