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LESSONS IN BEAUTY (ANTOON VAN DYCK)

Stefaan Decostere
A portrait of Antoon Van Dyck, often called "the Mozart of painting". If there is an enigma about Van Dyck’s character, it is complicated by a scarcity of first hand accounts of him and the almost complete lack of letters by his hand. In the nineteenth century he was often cast, disparagingly, as Rubens’s brilliant but degenerate successor - effeminate, dissolute, irresolute...

EFFEN SPIEGEL VAN EEN STILLE STROOM

Lili Dujourie
The first frame shows an empty interior. On the left there are a brightly lit surface and a mantel support on the floor; to the right stands a female figure clothed in shirt and jeans. The scale and perspective seem skewed, and it is not until she moves out of the visual field that we notice that the right half of the screen is a mirror reflecting the space behind the camera...

TO FLOAT

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is fully dressed while drifting away with the current of a river. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

DE ZEEMANNEN EN HET SCHIP

Harald Thys
In ’The Sailors and the Ship’ two former sailors muse on their past from their apartment with a view on the sea wall. A male storyteller’s voice recounts their tale. Once upon a time they were brave seamen on a beautiful ship, led by a fantastic captain. But the death of their beloved captain caused the two man so much pain and sorrow, that they never spoke again...

THIS DAY WON'T LAST

Mouaad el Salem
A day that could also be a life. A young man who could also be an older woman. A nightmare that could also be a dream. In Tunisia, while it could also be somewhere else: on the border between the necessity and the fear to make a film, the necessity and the fear for the revolution, is This day won’t last a cooperation with a distance...

THE BOAT

Messieurs Delmotte
A scene at night. All dressed in black, Messieurs Delmotte is sitting in a red inflatable boat, slowly floating on what seems to be a calm lake. Suddenly, he jumps up and cuts the boat with two knifes. But the tiny vessel does not sink at al… This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

INTRODUCTION TO THE END OF AN ARGUMENT / SPEAKING FOR ONESELF, SPEAKING FOR OTHERS

Elia Suleiman - Jayce Salloum
Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman take a shot at the western media’s image of the Arab world...

HOMMAGE À … II

Lili Dujourie
The five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. In Hommage à .....

FOUNTAIN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte takes his morning shower in the public square fountain....

ROLAND VAN DEN BERGHE

Jef Cornelis
An interview with Belgian visual artist Roland Van Den Berghe, as part of the exhibition ‘Free as the Air and Function’. Van den Berghe, wearing a Queen Fabiola mask, discusses the way icons and doctrines are created in an artificial way and the role art plays to break through these straitjackets...