William Kentridge: Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

William Kentridge reimagines his film series Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot through text and image in this striking artist’s book.

A new film series by internationally acclaimed South-African artist William Kentridge, Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot premiered at the Arsenale Insitute for Politics of Representation during the 2024 Venice Biennale. An experiment in embodiment and phenomenological experience in the digital age that was initially created for online viewing, Kentridge has now reimagined the series as a publication. He reworks its nine episodes through a selection of film stills and script extracts, this new form reinvigorating the series’ investigations into the relationship between mark-making and self-fashioning, painting and musical scores, dance and drawing, and its reflection on what might happen in the brain and in the studio of an artist today.