COLLECTION

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - RÉPÉRAGE CAMBRIOLE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
A male voice-over suggests that video has made the life of furniture makers easier and safer. Pieces of furniture, alluminated by tracking lights, are being recorded....

BROKENDOWN DREAM

Messieurs Delmotte
The work of Messieurs Delmotte is situated somewhere between reality and the improbable, somewhere between playfulness and dilettantism. Delmotte, who is one person, despite his adopted plural title, is immediately distinguished (distinguishes himself) by his outward appearance. He could be regarded as a strange, updated version of a 19th-century dandy or even as a 21st-century Buster Keaton...

HEAD TRYING TO ENTER IN A BODY

Messieurs Delmotte

MOVING OUT

Geoffroy De Volder
‘Moving out’ is a contradictory film about altering loves. Constructed as an audio-visual compilation in which random indications of childhood, sexuality and passion are brought together as a broken nuptial, this film has an overwhelming intensity that relives the alienation and exposure throughout the story of a physical confrontation that threatens us and tears us apart...

LA MORT D'UNE POULE

Jacques Louis Nyst
Recorded in the Nysts’ living-room during a rainy day, this video marks the introduction of colour (in this case green) in the previously black and white universe of the Nysts’ videos. 'La mort d’une poule' shows a top hat held in the air thanks to the help of a stick...

CONTAINED MOBILITY

Ursula Biemann
’Contained Mobility’ concentrates on the suspended time-space of translocal existences, and the politics of mobility and containment. The video project looks at the situation currently emerging from the changes to, and prompted by, the regulation of movement across Europe’s borders...

Extensions, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam

EXTENSIONS

Hans Op de Beeck
In terms of content, the animated film ‘Extensions’ deals with cultural and subcultural rituals, science and technology as extensions of the human body, and as the physical manifestation of an unfailing belief in progress, which is both redemptive and ethically problematic. The artist defines the extension of the body in very broad terms...

ZIMMER, GESPRÄCHE

Dora García
A Leipzig apartment is the chosen setting for an encounter between a Stasi officer and a civilian informant in ‘Zimmer Gespräche’ (‘Room, Conversations’). Until 1989, the Stasi was the all-powerful East-German police. However, neither the Stasi nor the city of Leipzig are ever specifically mentioned...

THE GARDEN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte, hidden under a table (laid out for dinner), stands up and throws about the table. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

LE JEUNE ARTISTE BOUFFE

Claude Degueldre
"It’s delicious to devour those greasy substances that we have to absorb. We all know how wonderful it is to nourish oneself with culture, to drench oneself in knowledge and make a meal of it. So, licking my lips upon seeing so much to eat and drink, I put myself forward as young devouring artist." (Claude Degueldre)...