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LUMA Arles presents the world premiere “The Great Yes, The Great No”, a newly commissioned William Kentridge performance. Produced by The OFFICE Performing Arts + Film, and staged in partnership with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, it was developed at The Centre for the Less Good Idea.
March 1941: a cargo ship leaves Marseille for Martinique with, on board, several artists and intellectuals escaping from Vichy France, including André Breton, Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam.
This real event takes a magical turn when Charon, the ferryman of the dead who has now been promoted captain, rearranges space-time and invites other celebrated figures to join this new kind of ark, an allegory of all the forced expeditions of the past and present, including the representatives of anti-colonialism Aimé Césaire, Franz Fanon and the Nardal sisters.
In conjunction with the world premiere of his newly commissioned opera “The Great Yes, The Great No”, the exhibition “Je n’attends plus (I am Not Waiting Any Longer)” presents a group of major works, some of which have not been seen in Europe before. Dealing with issues of migration, oppression, racial relations, the transmission of history, and the role of the artist in a society under duress, the exhibition brings together a remarkable body of experimental and performative work.
📍”The Great Yes, The Great No”
7-10 July 2024
LUMA Arles, La Grande Halle
📍”Je n’attends plus”
30 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
LUMA Arles, La Mécanique Générale
📷1: ph. @ Stella Olivier. Courtesy William Kentridge Studio.
📷2: William Kentridge, still from “You Whom I Could Not Save”, 2023, single chanel HD film. Courtesy William Kentridge Studio.
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