Artist field note

William Kentridge

History advances through erasure, revision and return.

History of the Main Complaint by William Kentridge — Drawing from History of the Main Complaint (1996), documented preparatory artwork.
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History of the Main Complaint

1996

A white industrialist's medical crisis becomes an anatomy of guilt under apartheid.

The five in one idea

Kentridge makes the act of redrawing history visible, including the marks that power would prefer to erase.