1 October - 12 November 2022
Goodman Gallery, London
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William Kentridge’s Oh To Believe in Another World is his first solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery in London, marking 30 years of representation by the gallery. The exhibition premieres the artist’s latest major work—an immersive five-channel projection responding to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10. The title references utopia, our wish for it, and the shadow it always casts.
The centrepiece originated as a commission by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, leading to a single-channel live orchestral performance in Lucerne, Pompeii, and Johannesburg earlier this year.
This project expands on Kentridge’s long-standing engagement with Soviet life and culture, previously explored in I am not me, the horse is not mine (2008) and The Nose (2010), based on the absurdist opera by Shostakovich. His 10th Symphony, composed in anticipation of Stalin’s death, resonates deeply with Kentridge due to its humanity.