Artist field note

William Kentridge

History advances through erasure, revision and return.

The Refusal of Time by William Kentridge — Example from the series
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The Refusal of Time

2012

Machines, projections and marching figures turn standardized time into a colonial instrument.

The five in one idea

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