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Leila Ainge's avatar

I’ve enjoyed taking a look at Kentridges work this week, thank you for the introduction ☺️. I’m unlikely to get to London before the end of the year but the exhibition looks epic.

I find his work really multidimensional, so much going on in each piece. Theres an interesting contrast between the gnarly films with distorted movements from the rubbing out and /redrawing and the image of the Comrade Tree collage for example. I think it’s the ugliness that sits with nature that makes me think of dystopia/handmaids tale. He’s presenting all of these pieces, his lens of the world, as individual scenes - but you know that they are all based on one lived context.

The colonial landscapes feel like they’ve been washed in a distorting ‘film noir’ filter.

The image of the woman waving the big red flag 🚩 on the gallery website made me think of ‘les mis’ and revolution, yet that image of Black Box/chambre Noir’ made me instantly think of the popular TV version of Atwoods handmaids tail when I entered the webpage!

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Mary Jo Matsumoto's avatar

This was a fantastic piece, and Kentridge's work is incredible! I want to see it in person. I don't know if you follow Ray Dalio, but most disturbingly he methodically lays out the statistical probability of an impending civil war due to all the reasons you mention re: polarization and the fact that the Supreme Court for the first time has rulings that are/will be disobeyed (abortion & gun control). But back to art, I keep thinking of that quote from The Third Man about all the art that came out of the Borgia's reign of terror and bloodshed.

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