The art of William Kentridge emerges from the context of the bloodstained tensions that characterized the years of Apartheid in South Africa, and from the contradictions that later marked the difficult path of reconciliation.

Dominated by an intense narrative thrust, the artist’s films relate stories that do not dwell on specific details but focus on the existential sorrow of the contemporary individual.

The sense of uncertainty and impotence of the individual in the wake of historical processes is heightened by the technique the artist usually employs for his animated drawings, created by erasing and re-drawing over and over again on the same sheet of paper.