Un homme danse et virevolte d’un écran à l’autre, tandis que la musique résonne. Un autre s’avance et jette des feuilles au vent, suivi par une silhouette portant un drapeau, avant d’être rattrapé par une fanfare empreinte de gravité… Voici quelques-unes des scènes auxquelles le visiteur pourra assister en découvrant l’œuvre monumentale de William Kentridge à l’occasion de l’exposition Pas sommeil à Rennes. Huit écrans, immenses, donnent à voir sa création vidéo panoramique, intitulée More sweetly play the dance​.

"He is one of the major artists in the world today. People compare him to Picasso, to DaVinci, in terms of his expertise, his inventiveness, his sense of humor," recounted John Shannon, an art collector and founder of Milwaukee's Warehouse Art Museum on the works of William Kentridge.

South Africa’s leading contemporary artist offers a reflection on the limits of transitional justice in his country, which is also relevant for Taiwan and the Tai Ji Men case. A paper presented at the webinar “Tai Ji Men: The Road to Freedom,” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on July 18, 2022, United Nations Nelson Mandela Day.

In 2015 and 2020, the George Eastman Museum received two major donations of moving image works from South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955). Along with widely celebrated masterpieces, the collection contains a wealth of lesser-known material. This two-part program of short videos, screening on a loop in the Multipurpose Hall during museum hours, is full of wonderful surprises from Kentridge’s vast filmography.