William Kentridge, Untitled (drawing for the film Tide Table), 2003, charcoal on paper, 31 1⁄2 x 47 1⁄4".
Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
William Kentridge’s animated films and drawings are many things to many people: a principled eye on postapartheid South Africa, an exercise in medium-specificity, a rare expressive adult sensibility. This retrospective surveys all the Kentridges in one show. Older, politically oriented films evolve into recent works that push into formal issues of film and narrative. Most exciting is the debut of Tide Table (Eckstein on the beach?), a film that brings us into a South Africa haunted by AIDS. The catalogue features essays by South African writer Jane Taylor and others.
