Woman Turning into a Telephone (ed 3/40)

Working with great sensitivity and subtlety, Kentridge is among the best of artists who deal with a broad range of political issues…particularly addressing national identities, economic differences, individual and collective responsibilities, and of memory and loss.  Although much of his work is inspired by specific events in his native South Africa, Kentridge's work has a universal significance and speaks to oppression and iniquity everywhere.  Kentridge wants to call attention to the state of terrorism that was central to apartheid in South Africa, but he also wants us to look beyond that cruelty to an inner landscape where we all wrestle with issues of power and desire, of right and wrong, of guilt and forgiveness.