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SECOND-HAND EXPERIENCE 02
Edith DekyndtThe 'Second hand experiences' are an uncompleted series of film installations, reinterpreting movements from childhood. In 'Second-hand experiences 02', Dekyndt handles an embroidery floss and builds a square loop which she keeps on shaping and reshaping with her hands...
MEETING FLORCHEN GORDON
Grace SchwindtIn this work, the artist’s grandfather remembers meeting his Jewish neighbour in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany. He tells this story while iluustrating it with a drawing....
SNUFF COQ
Messieurs DelmotteDelmotte makes his own snuff-movie by killing a rooster with a sabre and throwing the corpse in a canal. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
EGYPT 2002
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée’s piece is a video portrait of modern Egypt. Video clips of traditional and modern aspects of life in Egypt are juxtaposed. From architecture to mummified corpses in the desert, Coca-Cola advertisements to a busy traffic junction, wedding dresses to a reverse image of a statue. Pacquée blends the stereotypical with the unexpected, the familiar and the unfamiliar...
PIECES FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS
Filip FrancisA series of different experiments at an artistic workshop, a tunnel in Antwerp and in a gallery, with simple oblong pieces of wood, placed one after the other in such a way that, when the first one is touched, a chain-reaction is set off with the pieces falling backwards....
The Interpreter, 2009 Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo © the artist(s) & producer(s)
THE INTERPRETER
Raphaël Cuomo - Maria IorioThe Interpreter proposes a perspective on mobility towards Europe as it can be perceived and experienced from the Maghreb. The video evokes the time between a clandestine crossing of the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the 90’s and a recent forced return. It is based on elements from an ongoing field research by geographer Makrem Mandhouj...
TANIA, MODÈLE POUR PHOTOS DE CHARME
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...
L'ÉNIGME DU SPHINX
Jef CornelisThe work of architect Charles Vandenhove is an exploration of architecture in its fundamental simplicity and inevitable variety of form. His work, and in addition today’s architecture, is explained in the Liège Hotel Torrentius, a mansion from the 16th century being renovated, and this document’s focal point...
RIJKSWEG N1
Jef CornelisRijksweg 1 (State Highway 1) links up Antwerp to Brussels over Mechelen (Malines). Before the motorway came, there was some really heavy traffic. Now the highway is abandoned. Jef Cornelis picks out a straight piece, between Kontich and Walem. “A highway which lost its way. A road of today. A road acting as a location. It makes out the landscape, its own landscape all by itself...
