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During Black History Month, I visited the Royal Academy of Arts’ major Autumn exhibition, a presentation of works by William Kentridge.  Born in…

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Johannesburg-born William Kentridge, artist, director, performer, brings his dazzling work, rooted in criticism of apartheid and its legacy, to London's Royal Academy in an immersive, electrifying show

Say the absurd. the absurd, not as the way it is understood in england as the foolish, the joke, the humourous, but the absurd as saying you take a logic and if there is a crack in that logic and you follow it through to the nth degree, you get an absurdity in the world. inisde of south africa, the way of understanding apartheid was as this absurd logic where people's futures and lives were designated by how curly their hair was, how dark their skin was, an absurdity deep in the heart of that logic but it is carried through to a murderous end. there is a way in which taking the absurd and the ...

"Drawing is the starting point to nearly all of Kentridge's work. He sees drawing as a testing of ideas, a slow-motion version of thought.