Apartheid. War. Colonialism. These are the subjects that interest the South African artist William Kentridge. His oeuvre is multifaceted. Kentridge makes political films out of drawings in charcoal (he photographs a drawing, partially erases and redraws it, again photographs it, and eventually these successive images add up to a movie). He also creates fascinating sculptures and triptychs, using recurring symbols that are the basis of a Kentridgean lexicon. At Hauser & Wirth, the artist’s mohair tapestries and laser-cut silhouettes are placed against backdrops of archival political maps. The short film Sibyl (2020) acts as a summation of the show’s themes. —Elena Clavarino