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History on One Leg | William Kentridge
Exhibition 21 December 2024–17 April 2025
Process: Studio visit, History on One Leg | William Kentridge, March 11, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and A4 Arts Foundation.
Title History on One Leg | William Kentridge Dates 21 December 2024–17 April 2025 Location Gallery Tagline A browsable selection from William Kentridge’s studio notebooks made over the past fifteen years together with other tools, routes, and processes of studio work.
Curator William Kentridge Josh Ginsburg
Credits

Production:
János Cserháti

Fabrication and installation:
Kyle Morland

Notebook production coordinators:
Jessica Jones
Anne McIlleron

Exhibition wall texts:
Damon Garstang
Claire Zinn

Exhibition wall mural:
Keren Setton

Exhibition writers:
Lucienne Bestall
Lemeeze Davids
Sara de Beer

Notebooks printed by Pulp Paperworks, Johannesburg, on Arena Ivory 70gsm

Presenting a browsable selection from William Kentridge's studio notebooks, History on One Leg is interested in Kentridge's studio tools, routes, detritus and projections. Resting on things like music stands in A4's gallery, the notebooks offer themselves to be read or deciphered. As a vital part of the artist's studio process, their pages are a place for 'thinking forwards', where sketches, scores, diagrams, lists, and phrases appear. Unlike a diary, the studio notebook is rarely a site for retrospective action. Propositions are made, things may, or may not, be further developed. For the first time in the artist's practice, the notebook becomes a complete site for work – the place to compose a film, mapped exactly from the notebook's pages and shown in this exhibition.

Process: Studio visit, History on One Leg | William Kentridge, March 11, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and A4 Arts Foundation.
Process: Studio visit, History on One Leg | William Kentridge, March 11, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and A4 Arts Foundation.
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