William Kentridge I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine

William Kentridge emerged as an artist during the apartheid regime in South Africa. His artworks draw connections between art, ideology, history and memory, and reveal the ways in which ideas and images echo across time and between different cultures.

Kentridge’s video work I am not me, the horse is not mine is among his most ambitious moving image works. It premiered at the Biennale of Sydney in 2008 and was gifted to the Art Gallery of New South Wales by Anita and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis in 2017.

Developed out of research for Kentridge’s production of Dimitri Shostakovich’s 1928 opera The nose, it incorporates stop-motion animation, live action, archival video, and a soundtrack by acclaimed South African composer Philip Miller in a large-scale, eight-screen video installation.