Laure Prouvost, The Wanderer, 2012

That weird no man’s land between Christmas and New Year—all bloating, Bailey’s exhaustion, reaching the end of your tether with certain relatives and so on—feels a lot like a slog. Then we’re expected to gee ourselves up and get on with the Big Night Out of New Year’s Eve. It feels a lot like this poor little squid creature looks. This still is from Laure Prouvost’s The Wanderer, a feature-length film project built from six narrative sequences that use the text of Macbeth as a loose framework. A new show of Prouvost’s work is set to open in February at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) entitled Am-Big-You-Us Legsicon.