Paper Procession VI

William Kentridge
Paper Procession VI, 2023
Steel, aluminium, oil paint
Approx: 108 x 44 x 39 cm

'Paper Procession VI’ forms part of a set of new hand-painted, aluminium and steel sculptures in vivid colour. The origin of these sculptures are a series of small paper sculptures, made from the torn and coloured pages of a 19th century accounting journal from the Chiesa di San Francesco Saverio in Palermo. This ‘Paper Procession’ speaks to the process of costume-making. During periods of intensive workshops in the making of a theatre production, Kentridge and his collaborators work with paper as a way to think about costumes, and their colours.