デニコライ＆プロヴォースト denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 (Japan, 2022)
デニコライ＆プロヴォースト denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 (Japan, 2022)
デニコライ＆プロヴォースト denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 (Japan, 2022)
デニコライ＆プロヴォースト denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 (Japan, 2022)

Denicolai & Provoost

Earthworm since 2001 (Japan, 2022)

2022

Poster printed in offset on 130 kg Araveal paper

51.5 × 36.4 cm

Unframed

Edition of 30 copies numbered and signed by the artists on a certificate, plus 3 artist’s proofs and 3 publisher’s proofs

Translator's note: 未来 = "Future" / 現在 = "Present" / 過去 = "Past"

Related edition: 2023

Price
€150.00
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The edition

For more than twenty years, Denicolai & Provoost have used the earthworm as a metaphor of their artistic practice. In their own words: “The earthworm swallows its context, digests it and defecates it, in order to survive and move in its environment.” The “context” is indeed key to understanding the artists’ horizontal approach, how they connect to a given situation and poeticize it, and how they get all kinds of (human and non-human) protagonists to play a role in the work’s construction. As an animal that contributes modestly but resolutely to recycling the organic matter and nourishing the soil, the earthworm is also an “underground” and ecological figure—a nod to the role and the ego of today’s Artist.

The artists
Ivo Provoost Simona Denicolai Keijiban

Photo by Sylvie Eyberg

Simona Denicolai and Ivo Provoost were born respectively in 1972 and 1974. They currently live in Brussels.

Working as a duo since the mid-1990s, Denicolai & Provoost have developed an artistic practice that seeks to poeticize everyday situations. Most of their projects are conceived in a specific context, which they explore and reconfigure by means of scenarios and protocols involving objects, people, communities, animals, natural environments, and other entities.

Although the works eventually take the form of installations, videos, drawings, publications, they are not considered as an end, but rather as a dynamic situation, one that triggers encounters and collaborations, revives memories, questions social preconceptions, and raises awareness on neglected realities.

In the spring of 2021, Denicolai & Provoost’s unique work was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the SMAK, Ghent’s Museum for Contemporary Art. It notably featured their animated film Hello, are we in the show? (2020).

Recent solo shows include 10 hors-champs in the show, LMNO, Brussels, Belgium, 2021; Hello, are we in the show? (comment voir la même autre chose), SMAK, Ghent, Belgium, 2021; Gigantisme, art et industrie, FRAC Grand Large, Dunkerque, France, 2019 ; Tien taarten / ten cakes, Genk, Belgium, 2018 ; More, Galerie West, Den Haag, Netherlands, 2014.

Denicolai & Provoost are represented by LMNO Gallery (Brussels).

The exhibition
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan
Denicolai & Provoost Earthworm since 2001 Japan

Denicolai & Provoost’s exhibition took place at Keijiban from September 15 to October 14, 2022.