Kentridge Exhibition

This exhibition was very intriguing to me because of the fact that we have this man, William Kentridge, who decides to combine political issues with art, and by doing so he includes some the most expressive elements he could find such as music, dance and put it all together in this visual manner; yet he mixed it all in a respectful way. I really enjoyed how culturally diverse his videos were. His work was very detailed and I really appreciated that’s he merged so many symbolic elements and cultural artifacts (from what I believe to be originated from Africa) that although I was not familiar with I think they made a very strong impression. I think something that also helped this was the clothing used, the fact that the people were shoeless, and the sense of oppression that he portrayed that helped his point. Something that I was curious of was trying to understand the connection in between his African influence and the use of all the Asian imagery that he used (Mainly on the ballet video) since there were all these freedom references but then again we had all these writings all over the screen in what it seemed to be Chinese. There was also the room with the 3D sculptures/paintings that gave me a sense of recap from form what I had previously seen. Another curious thing that I found about this video (the ballet) was the way in which it was set up, since in here we had these three screens that continuously kept changing images so it made me keep switching in between screens rapidly. Although, the screens kept constantly changing, I recalled hearing some of the people around me saying that it was three different subjects when in fact it was all part of the same exhibition, it was just the way in which Kentridge portrayed it that made it look like this. I think Kentridge did a magnificent work putting up this exhibition and presenting it to us.