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lieve prins, Belgian-born (1948)

Horizontal Theatre & Paintings with Light
The photocopy machine and scanner has become an iconic informal meeting place in offices throughout the world, a universal grey box suited only for talk around or over. But for more than 30 years, Lieve Prins has refined an ability to speak with and through this humble office-bound device.
How many of us suspected that this bulky, frustrating to operate and frankly dull exterior have disguised a machine with a soul that yearns to sing?
Touch – a perfect encapsulation of the physicality of her work - shows that sing it does in the service of Prins’ earthy, cornucopian imagination. "[In photography], everything is reduced to a negative; you lose the sense of the real size of the subject. With life-scanning, all attention has to be focused on one body part, then you build up a fantasy image with these parts." It's dreamy, it's erotic -- but fresh squid on a warm scanner or photocopier? "Yes -- they stank!" Prins