William Kentridge: That Which Is Not Drawn, CCCB, Barcelona: 9 October 2020-21 February 2021

Both were curated by Jaap Guldemon, the director of Exhibitions and curator at Eye Filmmuseum. The exhibit provides a space to reflect on the challenges of living in a post-colonial society. Kentridge’s work opens a dialogue around uncomfortable questions to do with this topic.

Contemporary, South African artist William Kentridge is best known for his multidisciplinary art centred around prints, drawings, and animated films. His animations are created by filming a charcoal drawing, making changes and then filming it again. The films are displayed alongside the finished artwork. 

You can see his collection of animations, Drawings for Projection, which look critically at South African history from apartheid to modern day. Kentridge’s work often focuses on aspects of social injustice, as he believes the job of an artist is to deconstruct dogmas and things that we as a society take for certain. The collection includes the tapestries The Nose and The Porter. 

A large audiovisual piece of Kentridge’s, More Sweetly Play the Dance, is in Room 2 until 17 January 2021. It depicts a frenzied scene of refugees escaping crisis to the sound of African Immanuel Essemblies Brass Band.