WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: "Je n'attends plus" ("I Am Not Waiting Any Longer")

235pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, LUMA Foundation / LUMA Arles, Cologne & Arles, 2025

ISBN: 9783753307664

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, La Mécanique Générale, Parc des Ateliers, LUMA Arles, June 2024 - January 2025, and the world premier of his chamber opera The Great Yes, The Great No, performed at La Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers, LUMA Arles, July 7-10, 2024.

In addition to Kentridge's opera, the exhibition presented several large-scale installations, including Oh to Believe in Another World (2022), More Sweetly Play the Dance (2015), and KABOOM! (2018), as well as the Porter Series tapestries.

Contributions include:

William Kentridge in conversation with Vassilis Oikonomopoulos and Flora Katz

"Aesthetic Voyages: Suzanne Césaire and Michel Leiris, 1931-48" by Anne Lafont

"On Surrealism and Negritude", William Kentridge in conversation with Homi K. Bhabha

"Surrealist Dramaturgies and Other Evasions of Capture" by Mwenya Kabwe

"Shaking Up Reality: William Kentridge's theatrical work" by Flora Katz

"A Chorus of Seven Women" by Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Mwenya Kabwe.

William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg) is internationally acclaimed for his artworks, theater and opera productions. His method combines drawing and erasing, tearing, gestural painting, collage, weaving, casting, writing, film, performance, music, theater and collaborative practices.