Telephone Lady

Kentridge addresses Apartheid in South Africa through performance, installation, and stop-motion animation. This linocut, printed from a panel of incised linoleum flooring, features a woman morphing into a rotary phone. Reflecting on the way new technologies alter our relationships to the past and to one another, Kentridge commented, “An old mechanical telephone exchange, for me, is an easy way of drawing the points of exchange and of communication that we are all locked into now.”