In work made over the past five decades, William Kentridge has recorded and reconfigured history – responding to the past as it ineluctably shapes our present – and in doing so, has created a world that mirrors and shadows our own. Through film, performance, theatre, drawing, sculpture, painting, and printmaking, Kentridge seeks to make sense of the world and the construction of meaning; his work brings viewers into awareness of how they see the world and navigate their way to more conscious seeing and knowing. Opening 14 March, Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong will present ‘William Kentridge. Weigh All Tears’, an exhibition organized working closely with Goodman Gallery. This is Kentridge’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, and the first project between Hauser & Wirth and this Johannesburg-based artist. The exhibition takes its title from a new 6-metre-wide triptych of the same name, where silhouetted figures form a procession against a collage of maps of Africa and historic documents. ‘Weigh All Tears’ is a phrase that cycles through Kentridge’s work, like the phrases he often uses in other larger series, they are “unsolved riddles, phrases which hover at the edge of making sense. These are fragments of sentences which sit in a drawer of phrases used in other work over the years. On occasion they get taken out and sorted through.

Gallery address: 15-16/F, H Queen’s, Central

© William Kentridge

Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Photo: lon Etter