Absalon was the name adopted by Israeli artist Eshel Meir upon his arrival in Paris in the late 1980s. His “cellules,” life-sized architectural models made of wood and painted white, were designed as both sculptures and living-pods. Six of these were exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris shortly before Absalon’s untimely death at the age of twenty-nine. His work has been exhibited posthumously in Europe, the United States, and Turkey and is found in the Tate Modern, Daimler Modern, and other public collections.
Kentridge’s signature practice is to draw an image in charcoal, photograph it, and then repeatedly erase, redraw, rephotograph it, and then animate it on film. Felix in Exile is the fifth film in…
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