William Kentridge's 'Self-portrait as a Coffee Pot' at the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation is presented alongside the 2024 Venice Biennale. The presentation recreates the polymath South African’s studio: inky tree wall drawings, doppleganger props, musings on dada, utopianism, Shostakovich, in the film “Oh to Believe in Another World”.
This exhibition of thirty-minute episodes by Kentridge that were primarily created as a series for online viewing, is an experiment in embodiment and phenomenological experience in the digital age, and a reflection on what might happen in the brain and in the studio of an artist, today.
The nine-episode series was created and directed by William Kentridge, executive produced by Rachel Chanoff and Noah Bashevkin of The Office Performing Arts + Film, Joslyn Barnes of Louverture Films and the William Kentridge Studio. Walter Murch supervised the editing by South African digital artist Janus Fouché and Kentridge's regular collaborators Žana Marović and Joshua Trappler.
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