La Quinzaine de la vidéo

Dream is reality as seen through the microscope of sensitivity. Dream is reality seen with the eyes of emotion. Not everyone has the time to look at things through the eyes of emotion. I have that time. I question in lost time every piece of matter, every slice of reality. Because I’m not sure of things. I’m not sure of the world.
Sony Labou Tansi, “Libération, numéro hors série”, March 1985, in “Encre, sueur, salive et sang”, Textes critiques, Editions du Seuil, 2015, p. 81

The result of nearly fifteen years of encounters and research on the African continent, this program offers videos by artists who have been exploring innovative writing, for more than a decade for some, a few years for others.
Starting from a raw material, a swallowing of reflections, a play of mirrors, whispered words and prolonged silences, they open up fields of reflection, to be cultivated slowly, on migration, ecology, the digital world, living memory, colonial heritage, urban space, representation, image.
They cross the past, present and future in a multiple geography of voices and looks.
Each of the six programmes is a fragment linked by temporal and geographical discontinuities, following the intuition of a possible dialogue between various “dream” proposals.
The artists are sometimes visionary and their works seize us like a cry of alarm.
They draw up a report on their achievements, questioning the hybrid faces of Africa.
They expose the greatest feelings on the screen, of love, oblivion, fear.
They constitute a multitude of views on the complex realities of the world and contemporary history, and more specifically of the Global South.
Let’s take the time to look at the world, with the same doubt and the same desire as all these artists, as if in a fragmented mirror, where the stories enter into relationship, to the point of «splitting one’s eyes».

— Rosa Spaliviero, Brussels, December 2019

With works of: Baloji, Tiecoura N’Daou, Bakary Diallo, Sandra Heremans, Abdoulaye Armin Kane, Hamedine Kane & Ayesha Hameed, Francois Knoetze, Nelson Makengo, Frank Mukunday & Tétshim, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Piniang, Kivu Ruhorahoza and Remy Ryumugabe