MOVING OUT
Geoffroy De Volder‘Moving out’ is a contradictory film about altering loves. Constructed as an audio-visual compilation in which random indications of childhood, sexuality and passion are brought together as a broken nuptial, this film has an overwhelming intensity that relives the alienation and exposure throughout the story of a physical confrontation that threatens us and tears us apart...
MESSAGE DE L'OGRE
Jacques LennepLennep waves flags with black and white stripes — a reference to Daniel Buren? — in various places, next to huge statues....
MARC
Peter FolThis video manifesto by Peter Fol shows a masked young man from the Brussels conurbation. He tells about himself, and about the way he sees things in daily live. The person reflects openly on truth and logic, on intelligence and creativity, or on the love for one’s neighbor....
Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense, 1978, Boris Lehman © the artist
MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE
Boris Lehman"’Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense’ is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, so named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film is composed of around 30 chapters interlinked like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, or an anthill of numerous and overlapping galaxies...
MAQUILLAGE DE YVES SOMVILLE
Jacques LennepVideo, 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...
MARTIN MARGIELA HERFST/WINTER 97/98
Gorik LindemansMartin Margiela’s fashion shows have always been very ‘anarchistic’: never taking place on the official catwalks, but somewhere in Paris; very post-punk with candles, red wine and very loud, badly mixed music. The images taken of these shows were very alike, very grunge...
MR. CRUSTACROUS
Hänzel & GretzelA twenty-seconds manipulated clip by Hänzel & Gretzel. Accompanied by noisy breaks, in the opening shot, the artist depicts the hands of the mysterious man who is eating a lobster, the second shot is a zoom out where the presumed man turns to be have a lobster head on an human body. Finally, at the first bite, the head implodes and merely disappears....
MA MÈRE L'OYE
Thierry De MeyA cinematic interpretation of the ballet by Maurice Ravel with the same name (in the New York Philharmonic version, directed by Pierre Boulez). The orchestral splendour of the ballet is translated into a multi-dimensional tableau of several screens and visual angles, divided into a number of episodes, inspired on the best-known fairy tales of Charles Perrault...
MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER - AU STADE
Jacques LennepVideo, 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...
MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER
Jacques LennepVideo, 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...
MOUTH AND RED CHICKENS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tosses around chestnut chickens with his mouth. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER - CHEZ LE COIFFEUR
Jacques LennepVideo, 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...
MUET COMME UNE CARPE
Boris LehmanFrom pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed ‘in the Polish fashion’, also called in yiddish ‘Gefilte Fish’ is a traditional dish eaten by Ashkenazi Jews. It is cooked, sweetened and served as a cold dish at the start of the meal...
MADAME PAUL SIX ET COMPAGNIE
Jacques LennepMadame Paul Six et compagnie is a sequel to Madame Paul Six, une infirmière qui a des lettres. The work is part of the series Musée de l’homme, for which Lennep follows eight individuals who own a special collection or who have special habits.Mrs Paul Six is a farmer who is partially disabled because of an illness...
M. EL GIGANTE
Emilio López-MencheroWhen Cécile Wagner invited Emilio López-Menchero to exhibit in Ath, Belgium, the artist proposed to realize a faceless giant called M. as any Mister or Modern person. Recognized by the UNESCO, Ath is known as the City of Giants after the Ducasse festivities which take place every year on the fourth weekend in August...
MUSÉE DE L'HOMME (AUTRES)
Jacques LennepMusée de l'homme is a series with three characters, who each have a specific hobby and a specific urge to collect things....
MAN WALKING
Charley CaseIn ‘(Man walking)’ nothing but the feet and legs of a man are shown, inexhaustibly walking through the desert, mud, rivers, over rocks and mountains, asphalt and sidewalks and over a city rooftop, where he ultimately loses his balance and drops down to the ground. The sequence might be seen as a story, unfolding itself between life and death....
MÉDÉE
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
MOBY DICK
Jan BultheelJan Bulteel gave the subtitle “a sentimental epic” to his oeuvre, and that is precisely to what we are treated here. A sailor who has got into low water sets out on a quest to find the love of his life in the port of Antwerp. But with merely an old photograph of her in his pocket, he doesn’t get very far...
MUSÉE DE L'HOMME
Jacques LennepVideo, 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...
MONT AIGUILLE, GRENOBLE, FRANCE, NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO HELL, ACCORDING TO DANTE
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenWhen visiting the Mont Aiguille where according to Dante the entrance to Hell can be found, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...
MADAME PAUL SIX, UNE FERMIÈRE QUI A DES LETTRES
Jacques LennepVideo, 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...
MENSEN EN EIEREN
Filip FrancisThis video is a document on a performance carried out by Filip Francis and a bunch of people dressed in white. They start, at an accelerating speed, throwing eggs on a wall. The viewer doesn’t see the eggs getting smashed, but only hears the crushing sound....
MELT UMBRELLA
Messieurs DelmotteIn a rural landscape Delmotte sets fire to a black umbrella covered in oil. Then he leaves its metal carcass behind. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
MY BROTHER’S GARDENS
Hans Op de BeeckHans Op de Beeck based his video work on his short story by the same name, ‘My Brother’s Gardens’ (2001). In this narrative video work a group of young actors – narrators, as well as characters – move through simple backgrounds and scale models and a story is told about the complex relationship between three brothers: an identical twin and a third, autistic brother...
MARIAGE
Caroline CereghettiIn Mariage, Caroline Cereghetti follows an entire family during a wedding. The whole family is ready for the major event, they wait for the future bride, then, they go to the ceremony, followed by the dinner and the party. This silent video is a study of gestures, the attitudes, and the spaces that make out the human condition, the hierarchical relations within a family...
MYODESOPSIES (PROBABLE SONG)
Edith DekyndtMyodesopsia is a term derived from Greek (muiôdès,opsis) and refers to the “spots” we see when we close our eyes or when we poke into them for some time, as this stimulates their appearance. One of the possible explanations for the observation of these small dots is that they have to do with remnants of tissue that belong to an embryonic state of the body...
MOSAÏC HEREDITY
Emilio López-MencheroIn Mosaïc Heredity, Emilio López-Menchero talks into the fix camera and tells about himself, his situation and origins as if he is standing in front of an unemployment office agent or a police interrogation. Between fiction and reality, the short video is characterized by the insertion of black frames and the use of the mosaic mode of the camera...
MYRTLE BEACH
Jacques Louis NystAn early film by Nyst anticipating the work he would make years later: poetical ambience pieces, built around congealed memories, associations arousing from the imaginary and undermining the real. The poetry derives from the editing, from the wide range of colours, from the rhythm of its numerous evocations...
MUSÉE DE L'HOMME (POST-PRODUCTIONS)
Jacques LennepIn the seventies Jacques Lennep worked on his ‘Musée de l’homme’, a series of exhibitions, performances and videos in which eight figures were shown over the course of time in an artistic context, according to a wayward conception of sociological art...
MUSEUM VOOR KAPOTTE KUNST
Luc DeleuBeing an artist-architect, Deleu has always been sensitive to the recycling of buildings and the use of ‘ready-mades’. In ‘Museum voor kapotte kunst’ (‘Museum for Broken Art’) he records the outside and inside of an abandoned, declined industrial building from various angles. The building is an object, a ready-made that the viewer can modify as he or she likes...
MAISHA NI KARATA, LA VIE EST UN JEU DE CARTES
Philippe de PierpontIn 1991, de Pierpont worked for the first time with six forward young boys, living in a tight group on the streets of Bujumbura in Burundi. In 1994 he went back to meet the six, and after that visit it took almost ten years before he saw them again. In ‘Maisha ni Karata’ images of the last encounters alternate with images from ’91 and ’94...
MARCELS
Emilio López-MencheroOn September 2005, Emilio López-Menchero held an exhibition at Nadja Vilenne galery in Liège entitled MARCELs. Along with previous drawings, photographs and objects, the artist occupied the main room of the space with numbered singlets hung on aligned wires as people are used to do to dry their clothes...
