“I am interested,” Kentridge says, “in machines that make us aware of the process of seeing—seeing being a metaphor of how we understand the world. When we look through a stereoscopic viewer, we are aware that we have two completely flat images and that it is our brain that is constructing an illusion of three-dimensional depth. We do this all the time, in the world—our retinas are each receiving flat images and our brain combines them into an illusion of coherence and depth. But for me, it is more about the agency we have, whether we like it or not, to make sense of the world.”
Stereoscopic Suite, 2007
Individually titled A Cat in the Meat Trade, Étant Donné, Larder, Melancholia, Memento Mori, and Still Life.
Photoengraving. Portfolio of six prints, 13 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches each. Edition of 50.
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.