OVERZICHT TITELS

WIDEAWAKE

Orla Barry
Language, in written as well as in spoken form, constitutes the essence of Orla Barry’s work. She ties words into phrases, kneads sentences into paragraphs, ending up with a visual as well as verbal unity, an apparently non-structured stream-of-consciousness with an open and poetical structure. The monologue in ’Wideawake’ is performed by Caroline Donnely...

DE NEDERLANDSE DAGEN

Jef Cornelis
“De Nederlandse Dagen” (“The Dutch Days”) was an exhibition with manifestations on Dutch-speaking cultures, held in the summer of 1968 the hall of the Palace for Fine Arts in Brussels (the former BOZAR)...

GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA

Jan Vromman
In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PARTS I, II & III

Jayce Salloum
..The Ascent of Man.. Parts I, II, & III is a body of work which looks at the way reproductions/ representations are used to promote, influence and direct a way of life. Perceptual process is examined and guided through common gesture and implication of context to present a view of scientific/corporate materialistic domination of humanistic concerns...

WALKER, LA VALSIÈRE

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
Walker 3 is a survey of the Domaine de Valsière, in the suburbs of Montpellier. This unbuilt "natural" space, encircled by dwellings, was ravaged by a fire during the 2003 heat wave. In this lunar space that evokes a deserted battlefield and a western movie, the two artists scrutinize the terrain, searching for traces of a former state, evidence of a past life...

THE ROSES

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte goes to a public garden and with a pair of gardening shears he cuts all the roses from a rose bed. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...

SMALL LIES, BIG TRUTH

Shelly Silver
"In turn funny, disturbing and glisteningly sensual, small lies, Big Truth is a video about love, relationships and the joys and banality of sex in the late 20th century. It also touches on such issues as morality, voyeurism, nature vs. culture and power, as eight people are heard reading, in the first person, from the testimony of Monica S...

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: MUSÉE D’ART DU XVIIE SIÈCLE

Jef Cornelis
Views of the 17th century ’Eagles Department’ in Antwerp: façade, wooden crates, postcards of 17th-century works on the walls and a small garden. Marcel Broodthaers is whitewashing the inscription ’Département des Aigles’ written on the fence in the garden...

PIET MONDRIAAN

Jef Cornelis
Peter Struycken, one of the first European artists to make use of the computer, compares Composition in Black and White, the first abstract painting by Piet Mondriaan, to a computer programme-simulated copy – ‘Computer Composition With Lines’ by Michael Noll, who was a scientific advisor for the White House at the time...

BUENOS AIRES

Jef Cornelis
Buenos Aires, Baires or B.A., where the corridors of the National Bank were once piled high with heaps of gold, is trying to awaken from a number of simultaneous nightmares (the colonels’ regime, inflation, terror). The visual artist César Paternosto (La Plata, 1931) left Baires in 1964, because he felt he was banging his head, like a balloon, on the ceiling...