William Kentridge, born in Johannesburg in 1955, creates iconic images of porters and processional characters that have come to represent the transitional conditions that have plagued South Africa both under the apartheid regime and after its decline in the mid-1990s. Kentridge’s motifs evoke daily existence in the face of inequity, speaking both to South Africa specifically and to the world at large.
To produce the tapestries, Kentridge worked in close collaboration with the Stephens Tapestry Studio in Diepsloot, a suburb of Johannesburg, whose mission focuses on weaving as an artistic medium.
"...weaving transforms Mr. Kentridge’s ideas by reinterpreting them through a human activity that is not attached to an individual creator, but is instead a 'generic creativity' that can be expressed by anyone, in this case, trained in and attentive to the craft."
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