COLLECTION

O NON LA MAISON

Charley Case

THE VIDEO MESSAGE

Roy Villevoye
In The Video Message Omama talks about what happened to him after he collaborated on the development of the life-size, realistic statue that Roy Villevoye made of him: Madonna. The core of the story is that by participating in the project he sold his soul. Not in the figurative sense as we mean it, but literally. By selling this reproduction of his likeness he lost himself...

LEARNING PIECE: BE PATIENT, MY SOUL

Mekhitar Garabedian
This ‘learning piece’, like American artist Vito Acconci’s 1970 Learning Piece, concerns a performance in which a song is learned measure by measure, bit by bit. But, as Garabedian states in an interview, his is an appropriation of Acconci’s performance. During his own performance, Acconci sits at a table, playing a tape of Leadbelly’s Black Betty...

THE BOAT

Messieurs Delmotte
A scene at night. All dressed in black, Messieurs Delmotte is sitting in a red inflatable boat, slowly floating on what seems to be a calm lake. Suddenly, he jumps up and cuts the boat with two knifes. But the tiny vessel does not sink at al… This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 18. LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

Steve Reinke
Flowers express an obscure vegetal resolution....

INSERT COIN HIGHWAY CAR

Hans Op de Beeck
The viewer drops a coin in the slot machine and an image of a small child in a kiddie car appears. The car’s movement tips the child back and forth. Instead of enjoying the ride, the child appears sullen and unhappy. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

Ringleaders, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

RINGLEADERS

Peter Finnemore
Finnemore's crew of kids and other family members have fun by doing ring a Ring-o'Roses....

LAURIEN, SEPTEMBER 2001

Manon de Boer
From her dozens of portraits, Manon de Boer chose two, ‘Robert, June 1996’ and ‘Laurien, March 1996’, which she would - and still does - portray over an over again: the same individuals, in the same position, and within the same visual frame...

FABRIQUES

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Fabriques focuses on the ornamental elements which in recent years have proliferated on the private homes of the new residential districts around Msaken, patent signs of economic success and social prestige in a region marked by a high emigration towards Europe. These decorative elements are both the revealing signs of international mobility and its effects on the local townscape...

VLAAMSE CHOC

Peter Boeckx
During the run-up to the June 2004 elections Peter Boeckx follows the doings of Filip Dewinter over several months; the man is one of the heads of Vlaams Belang (formerly Vlaams Blok), the right-extremist political party in Flanders. Peter Boeckx makes clear that his report mainly focuses on the figure of ‘Filip the seducer’...