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GIROUETTE
Mira SandersSanders films a weather vane on the Nieuwe Graanmarkt/ Nouveau marché au Grains in the centre of Brussels. Looking through the eye of the camera, it takes Sanders a little while to realize that at a certain moment, once the wind is blowing, the gilded weather vane has a blinding effect in the sun. Because of the camera placement, the film creates a magical time space for the viewer....
FERMETURE DE L'USINE RENAULT À VILVOORDE
Jan BucquoyFebruary 1997: Louis Schweitzer, CEO of French car company Renault, makes the irrevocable decision to close the big Renault factory in Vilvoorde (Belgium) within three months. The Renault workmen immediately begin a strike and carry out a programme of action in Belgium and in France...
HERE IS EVERYTHING
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey DukeHere Is Everything presents itself as a message from The Future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit, spirit guides who explain that they’ve decided to speak to us via a contemporary art video because they understand this to be our highest form of communication. Their cheeky introduction, however, belies the complex set of ideas that fill the remainder of the film...
AND_04-2020
Peter DownsbroughIn: Place #3, Janvier/ January 2021, D’UNE PLACE L’AUTRE / CHANGING PLACES https://www.place-plateforme.com/place3/peter-downsbrough-and.html AND_04.2020 opens with a black screen and the sound of a man’s voice rising over the noise of traffic. His words are hard to distinguish, but their tones and cadence indicate they might be Chinese...
PHANTOM SUN
Alexis DestoopIn 2013 Alexis Destoop embarked on a series of travels to the border area between Norway and Russia – a counter-point with Australia: the cold and dark, snow and ocean are completely the opposite of the warm, sunny, dry desert climate. And yet both regions are subject to similar processes, hence the artist’s interest...
THE LAND WAS ALREADY OCCUPIED (THE FUTURE)
Marie VoignierFor the Ateliers de Rennes 2012, and in keeping with the spirit of Les Prairies, Marie Voignier has put herself in a real-life situation, that of looking at a building plot and investigating the different ways of approaching construction on it...
OBJETS PERDUS TROUVÉS
Mira SandersEarly 2018, Mira Sanders created Théorie des Objets—a series of inkjet prints and drawings that translate her observations of objects, based on the book Théorie des Objets (1972) by Abraham A. Moles...
AN ORDER OF THINGS
Grace SchwindtThe performance took place at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in September 2014. One performer is hovering horizontally a meter above the ground and the other, a magician, is sitting on a chair in a corner, turned away from the audience. She gets up four times to carry out dance choreographies and then sits down again...
JAN BRUSSELMANS
Jef CornelisContent: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 11’20" Pictures of the Flemish Expressionist painter’s work in the context of the retrospective devoted to him in Bruges. Alternating with photographs of Jan Brusselmans working in his studio. (No spoken commentary)...
