OVERZICHT TITELS
Zoek collectie
1937 [INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
WE CAME TO DANCE
Didier VolckaertWorld Exhibitions are twilight zones in which actual knowledge about the world and exoticism go together with sexual projection and frustration. Till deep into the 20th century, the then superpowers used "Human Zoos" to spread the worldview that “we” are part of civilization, whereas there are others who are not...
GOTT GOOD LORD
Hänzel & GretzelLook at her while she’s taking a shower, she has nice tits and… but is she really a she? Physical schizophrenia begins behind the mask....
VOX CLAMANS IN DESERTO
Ria Pacquée’Vox Clamans in Deserto’ is a combination of filmed reality (blood running down streets after a ritual slaughter in Moroccan Medina) and performance (a woman flinging sand into her face), intersected with a plain bright red screen...
BREIDARMERKURFJARRA BEACH
Edith DekyndtThe ice in the Breiðarmerkurjökull outlet glacier is made of compressed snow high up in the Vatnajökull ice cap. The way towards the glacier margin is long while being buried deep in the bowels of the glacier, sliding down the gently sloping land surface. Many centuries later, it ends up in Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. Thus, the ice is very old precipitation...
SPIEGEL
Lili DujourieA mirror and a fireplace are reflected. A naked woman enters the frame; stands up next to the fireplace ... We see her nude reflection in the mirror, standing off-camera, before she enters the camera's active zone. From our observation point, we see her walk forward, breaking the threshold of the camera's field of vision but still reflected in the mirror...
Take into the air my quiet breath, 2007, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne © the artists
TAKE INTO THE AIR MY QUIET BREATH
Julia Meltzer - David ThorneIn 1966, the Syrian government’s Ministry of Endowments solicited plans for a building to replace a 14th-century Mamluk mosque in Martyr’s Square in the centre of Damascus. A young architect proposed a design for a 5-star hotel and new mosque. In 1971, his plans were scrapped. In 1982, building started on a new structure...
