Journey to the Moon

In KENTRIDGE's interdisciplinary, multimedia creative universe, images are not merely backdrops or ancillary figures for theatre or installations; they function as a crucial intermediary in our understanding of the world. Citing Plato's Allegory of the Cave, he argues that the cave prisoners believed the shadows on the wall represented reality not because they were governed by hallucinations, but because silhouettes projected onto the walls by firelight marked the dawn of humanity's attempt to grasp the meaning of the world.