William Kentridge
Ubo Tells the Truth
1997 South Africa (video
art)
Born in Johannesburg , William Kentridge a politically and socially active artist, refers to the harsh realities and history of South Africa , apartheid, colonialism and their aftermath. His work transcends explicit political messages, and rather, addresses the human condition and art as an analogue of life. His art spans an interdisciplinary fusion of films, theater, charcoal drawings, prints and animation.
“I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings the contingent way that images arrive in the work, lies some kind of model of how to live our lives."
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
We are not interested
in the good of others;
We are interested solely in power.
...One does not establish a dictatorship
in order to safeguard
a revolution; one makes the revolution in order
to establish the dictatorship. The object of power is power...
...Power
is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds
to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
George Orwell, “1984”
