OVERZICHT TITELS

IJSBREKER 04: KUNST TE KOOP

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
The television programme ‘Ijsbreker’ always undertakes an expedition into the most dangerous areas of the cultural icy mountain ranges, reeling about this time between the peaks of visual art and the hidden iceberg of art trade, the gallery circuit, art criticism and museum policy...

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US

Jan Locus
'The Distance Between Us' takes its starting point in some audio cassettes artist and photographer Jan Locus received from a Moroccan family in Molenbeek a few years ago. Probably going back to the early 1980s, the cassettes contain an oral correspondence between families in Brussels and Morocco. These anonymous audio letters bear witness to the pain of those who stayed at home...

TREETS APPEARANCES

Messieurs Delmotte
In the park, Messieurs Delmotte plays hide-and-seek with a series of big, old trees. Will he ever come back in front of the camera? Who or what is he hiding from? This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

13

Patrick Bernatchez
13 is perhaps the most literal portrait of the building, employing as it does a vertically descending tracking shot through each of the twelve floors...

THE NATION

Pieter Geenen
The isolated people of Nagorno-Karabakh are living in a time vacuum since the cease fire of 1994. They live in a de facto independent country, but remain unrecognized as such by the international community. This area is still subject of an unresolved and long forgotten conflict which is the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union...

ALL

Shelly Silver
Part of the ongoing series Fragments, ALL is a 15 seconds clip. The work alternates static shots of home furnitures with details from drawings of considerable buildings. The contrast between the steel and glass surfaces of the sketches and the empty, but living, interior is furthermore underlined by the interchanged sound of the crowd and the silence in the apartment....

PROFIEL VAN DE ARCHITECT

Jef Cornelis

LITTLE FIGURES

Sarah Vanagt
"Three statues on the Mont des Arts in Brussels: a king, a queen and a medieval knight. Three newcomers to Brussels: a Philippino boy, a Rwandan refugee girl and a Moroccan boy. Three statues, three children; an imaginary conversation. " (https://www.balthasar.be) In ’Little Figures’ Sarah Vanagt once again plays with her passion for history, perspective and social commitment...

A.M./P.M.

Herman Asselberghs
There is no visible human presence in ’a.m./p.m’. Photos of cosmopolitan city landscapes are systematically scanned along with display views of office blocks, flats, dark corners, illuminated windows and skyscrapers. On the soundtrack one can hear a woman’s voice, talking about herself and the world, about images of today, about a journey...

DOCUMENTARY CREDIT

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
In economic jargon, “documentary credit” refers to a mode of payment that involves a bank between buyer and seller in order to ensure the buyer’s reliability. In the context of politics, “documentary credit” describes a kind collateral security that is not only based on the on the mutual loss of trust in each other but on the same time also recreates such mistrust...