COLLECTION

THE BUILDING

Hans Op de Beeck
'The Building' is a digitally-generated animation film which takes the viewer on a virtual, nocturnal walking tour of a fictitious, massive hospital. The facility has the mediocre, half-hearted, over-the-top architectural features common to hospitals, shopping malls, health clubs and airports all over the Western world...

UN DIEU AFFAMÉ

Hänzel & Gretzel
On the music of Paradise Now, the short video Un dieu affamé combines details from a Renaissance painting with footages of kids playing, a statue of the Buddha, gardens and shaman's tribal dance...

IJSBREKER 02: DE CULTUUR IN DE KRANT

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Mark De Geest - Jackie Claeys
This episode of ’Ijsbreker’ examines the matter of cultural reporting in Flemish newspapers, and more particularly in the quality newspapers De Morgen and De Standaard...

GIRL WITH A FLY

Sarah Vanagt
Girl with a fly is an entirely silent video loop, which source of inspiration is a sound recording of a fly in a church, a sound file that Sarah Vanagt found on the Internet. In Girl with a fly, a young girl enters a church and opens a matchbox: a fly flies up from the little box into the image-loaded space. The girl then starts to record the sound of the fly...

WOMAN WALKING

Charley Case
A screen split in three. A woman giving birth in hospital. A pregnant belly just a few hours before. And nothing but the feet and legs of a man (or woman?) walking through deserts, mud, rivers, over rocks and mountains, asphalt and sidewalks and over a city rooftop, where (s)he ultimately loses the balance and drops to the ground. Once again, birth and death meet....

A BIT OF MATTER AND A LITTLE BIT MORE

Lawrence Weiner
‘A Bit of Matter and A Little Bit More’ places individuals next to objects and language, in a kaleidoscope of possible layers of interpretation. The images in this work are of an explicit sexual nature...

MUSÉE DE L'HOMME

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

PROVISORY OBJECT 01

Edith Dekyndt
Between 1997 and 2004 Edith Dekyndt created a triptych of three short videos in which a soap bubble is stretched between two hands. This is the first part of the triptych, featuring the artists own hands. The shape of the iridescent soap bubble changes and reflects the light in various ways. Using simple techniques, Dekyndt appeals to a poetic dimension....

HOSTAGE: THE BACHAR TAPES (ENGLISH VERSION)

The Atlas Group - Walid Raad
"Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English version) is a multi-part videotape about ’The Western Hostage Crisis’. The crisis refers to the abduction and detention in Lebanon in the 1980’s and early 1990’s of western men like Terry Anderson and Terry Waite by ’Islamic militants’...

SIMONE

Eva Giolo - Aglaia Konrad
Simone brings to the fore the work of the too little-known modernist architect Simone Guillissen-Hoa, one of the first female architects in Belgium to have her own office in the 1940s. The film is composed of a series of observations of the houses and buildings that she designed and of archival material that reveals the architect’s own gaze...