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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | SECOND-HAND READING
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From October 17, 2019 to January 5, 2020.
Second-hand Reading is a video animation by South African artist William Kentridge, who is known for his reflections on time, violence, and resilience that address the history of colonialism, and the aspirations and failures of revolutionary politics.
This poetic ode is presented as a succession of drawings that are continuously erased and reworked directly on the pages of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Working in the sociopolitical context of apartheid and its aftermath, Kentridge offers an evolutionary content where meaning is built through the act of creation.