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.