Impressions
From
South Africa

An avid etcher, William Kentridge also experiments with the technique of linocut. Here he employed the medium’s stark formal qualities and its potential for mesmerizing patterning in the service of his work in the theater, which at the time involved large-scale props and the processional movement of life-size figures; characters that both carry their possessions and morph into them and their environment. The eight-foot high work calls to mind both antiapartheid marchers and uprooted communities.