The Placement of Shadows: What’s Inside William Kentridge’s Black Box/Chambre Noire?

Conflicts between context and content inWilliam Kentridge: Five Themes: a case study of the Melbourne exhibition

“…Her reading proposes that knowledge of site allows for a complex interpretation of his work, rather than focusing solely upon medium, form or subject matter (Guerin 2011). The installation recalls the genocide of the Herero people by the Germans in Namibia in 1902 (Ray 2008, 46-47).…”

“…She argues that a connotative meaning of this work is established when it is read in place; specifically in the Deutsche Guggenheim on the ground floor of The Deutsche Bank on Unter den Linden. Guerin notes that the work's placement recalls a foreboding history of this genocide that is inextricably connected to a burgeoning capitalist and expansionist economy in early twentieth-century Berlin (Guerin 2011).…”