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il y a toujours ce discret trou entre mes incisives quand il s’agit de mordre les corrompus

‘Swaying between French and English, Élise Legal’s poetry summons a word: sentence. If poetry is about looking for a sentence, its syntax, its vocabulary, its rhythm, Légal is looking for one with her teeth bared. Her writing relies on another meaning, for in both French and English, sentence also means judgement. With these clear-cut sentences her poetry tugs at the ways language makes us, the way capitalism makes language, the alliances we build or unbuild while we speak and write.’
–Elsa Boyer

Élise Legal is a French artist and writer, recently graduated from a MFA in Fine Art between Sheffield Institute of Art and the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Her writing addresses what bodies do to language and vice-versa, understood as an aesthetic and political gesture for re-claiming non-standard voice(s) positions.