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YVES SOMVILLE DANS LE RÔLE DE JESUS-CHRIST
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...
BESTE STEVE
Herman AsselberghsIn Beste Steve ('Dear Steve'), a man is smoothly dismantling a brand new MacBook Pro. Meanwhile, in a voice-over, a letter is read, addressed to Steve Jobs and signed by the artist. Beste Steve reveals the irreducible materiality of a tool that symbolises so-called immaterial labour...
DESSINE-MOI UN SOUVENIR
Miléna DesseAnchoring its subject in the intimate relationship between the filmmaker and her grandmother, Dessine-moi un souvenir is an attempt to question memory and its transmission on a personal as well as inter-generational and political level....
CONTAMINATE ME
Steve Reinke - Jessie MottThe small cruelties of a subliminal fog roll in. A pandemic thwarts intimacy. Perched from their little planets, this cast of wildly colorful creatures question their futures and navigate the longing for connection. This is the fifth collaboration between Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke....
THE PENSIVE
Hubert MarécailleConfronted with a complete lack of thoudht while visiting his unknown fatherʼs grave and present at a scene of arbitrary violence, an office worker ends up drunk to forget the cruelty of the world, the jacket over his head as a sign of denial... and an ephemeral victory on the life....
THE LADDER 1
Messieurs DelmotteWith his head between two rungs Messieurs Delmotte tries to balance a ladder. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
FIREWORKS
Messieurs DelmotteIn a field, Delmotte lights two fireworks attached to sticks. He holds the sticks in his hands while the fireworks go off and makes a few spins. Offscreen people shout and whistle. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
QUE SERÁ SERÁ: CARMEN 84
Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La CasinièreA young, determined and beautiful girl decides to leave her mighty protector forever. The woman in the video is laying in front of images of hotel rooms pasted on the background. She’s singing the tale of this modern Carmen....
THEO VAN DOESBURG [NELLY VAN DOESBURG]
Jef CornelisAnnie Declerck presents the Theo van Doesburg exhibition organized by Jan Leering 1969 at the van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. A report is given on van Doesburg’s drawings, paintings, poems, thoughts, relations with Mondrian, Bauhaus and Futurism, the balance between his architectural and pictural structures, his personal relationships with other artists and his philosophy and death...
nostalgia, 2009, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp
NOSTALGIA
Pieter GeenenEtymologically, the word ’nostalgia’ is derived from the Greek words ’nostos’ and ’algos’, meaning ’return’ and ’suffering’...
