Published to accompany the exhibition Laure Prouvost: Am-big-you-us Legsicon held at M HKA, Antwerp, February 8-May19, 2019.
Legsicon' delves into the philosophical depths of the artist's practice, through the familiar, if transformed, format of a lexicon, to portray the work of an artist developing complex thought through artistic languages. Deviating from a typical monograph, 'Legsicon' functions as a sort of dictionary, exploring and expanding on thirty-six notions in Prouvost's work, with each incorporating a commissioned text, new drawings created by the artist and selected documentation of her related works.
Accompanied by a 96-page booklet in Dutch.
Summary:
Legsicon' delves into the philosophical depths of the artist's practice, through the familiar, if transformed, format of a lexicon, to portray the work of an artist developing complex thought through artistic languages. Deviating from a typical monograph, 'Legsicon' functions as a sort of dictionary, exploring and expanding on thirty-six notions in Prouvost's work, with each incorporating a commissioned text, new drawings created by the artist and selected documentation of her related works. Words such as Artist, Boobs, Dream, Grandad, Octopus, Woman, and thirty other key words, have triggered contributions from Celidor Aikvost, Nuar Alsadir, Paul Becker, Dodie Bellamy, Paul Buck, Sophie Collins, Marie Darrieussecq, Bart De Baere, Melissa Gronlund, Nicoline van Harskamp, Nav Haq, Alistair Hudson, Elisa Kay, Martha Kirszenbaum, Brian Kuan Wood, Peter Kubelka, John Latham, Huw Lemmey, Kathy Noble, Elizabeth Price, Bernard Prouvost, Laure Prouvost, Natasha Soobramanien, Jonas Staal, Barbara Steveni, Abdellah Taïa, Maija Timonen, Murtaza Vali, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Agnès Varda, Timothy Vermeulen, Emily Wardill, Marina Warner, Mark Webber, and Lawrence Weiner.
