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The South African artist William Kentridge will debut his latest work, Self-Portrait As a Coffee Pot, at the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation in Venice this April. The new conceptual series of nine 30-minute videos was produced in the artist’s Johannesburg studio between 2020 and 2023 and explores how we make and experience art in the digital age.

“Filming began in the first lockdown and the studio mimicked the closed spaces of Covid,” Kentridge explained in a press statement. “But the studio is also an enlarged head, a chamber for thoughts and reflections, where all the drawings, photos, detritus on the walls become these thoughts.”