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CASSEURS DE CAILLOUX

Michel François
A video made in Brazil shows three men trying to split a rock with a wedge and two sledgehammers. What is involved is not just the desire to live a physical relationship with things, but to find forms to make that relationship visible....

NATURE SEE YOU

Erik Bünger
In November 2015, at the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris, a video was uploaded on the internet, in which Koko, a gorilla trained in the use of American Sign Language, addresses world leaders directly. She chastises humanity and calls for immediate action to save herself and the nature she is part of...

1. L’INFIRMIÈRE CANNIBALE

Lucile Desamory
A nurse is stealing corpses in order to eat up their brain. The hospital's staff eventually finds out about it. The cannibal nurse is brutally killed and buried in the garden…...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 20. DEAF

Steve Reinke
My father exists in a large room where he lectures to an audience which is mesmerized despite the fact that they are deaf and, moreover, cannot even lip-read as they speak a wholly other language....

TRAVELOGUE 4: COMING FROM THE WRONG SIDE

Stefaan Decostere
Although this Travelogue is essentially a touristic program, Stefaan Decostere’s view introduces no peaceful landscape. The area, Banff, is presented as a recycled product of a generic past, where archetypal images are layered to create the illusion of the passage of time...

FLYING PIGEON

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte hangs out of a window, holding a pigeon in his hand. He moves his arm around, while the pigeon is trying to flee. It looks as if Delmotte is trying to make the pigeon fly without actually releasing it. In the end the pigeon is cut loose. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

Blanket Apology, Adam Leech, 2010 © the artist

BLANKET APOLOGY

Adam Leech
Blanket Apology focuses on strategies of communication that are used when public figures give public apologies. Like Speech Bubble (2008), Blanket Apology is a dialogue between a man and a woman...

2 FEET FOR 2 BALLS

Messieurs Delmotte
On a football field, a disabled man is standing. He stares at two balls, a red one and a yellow one. Suddenly, the balls start to move and get closer and closer to the man till they climb up to his arms. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

ARBRE + PLUIE

Michel François
Rain ticks against a window. Through the window and through the droplets, we see a tree. This everyday image, usually overlooked, points out the poetic contrast between a continual time and a specific one....

ANOTHER DAY IN TREATY TOWN

Koen Theys
Another Day in Treaty Town is a contemporary European western. A saloon, a covered wagon, a campfire, a couple turkeys and a wooden grandstand appear in a sun-drenched Flemish landscape. The grandstand is filled with "cowboys and indians". Dignitaries from both sides are smoking the peace pipe. They are flanked by men cleaning their guns or sharpening their knifes...