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History on One Leg | Wayfinder
Publication 21 December 2024–17 April 2025
Wayfinder: History on One Leg curated by William Kentridge and Josh Ginsburg, December 21, 2024–April 17, 2025. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title History on One Leg | Wayfinder Dates 21 December 2024–17 April 2025 Tagline Find your way around the exhibition. Credits

Exhibition writers:
Lucienne Bestall
Sara de Beer

Additional notebook research:
Lemeeze Davids

Design:
Ben Johnson

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.

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