This piece of WORK was exchanged on St Jan place after digging long and deep tunnels
2019
Article, 21,5 x 26 cm.
Materials: Bread, wooden board, paint
Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris and Brussels), carlier | gebauer (Berlin) and Lisson Gallery (London and New York).
Laure Prouvost ongoing series of works she calls reliques describe moments or incidents that are typically small fragments of a much wider story. Forming an interconnected constellation of events, it is often ambiguous as to whether the stories are factual, fictional or somewhere in between. Each relique has a hand-painted label next to the exhibited artefact describing its meaning or significance. This particular relique, a piece of bread, we understand was the object of an exchange in an encounter following the digging of a tunnel that emerges in Antwerp’s St. Jansplein district.
