PARIS.- South African artist William Kentridge came to attention on the international scene in the 1990s thanks to a series of short animation films – he prefers to call them “drawings for projection” – depicting everyday life under apartheid. In the works he has produced since the end of the apartheid regime, which feature in this exhibition, he has broadened his themes, leaving his immediate environment to examine other political conflicts. In the process he has embarked upon a kind of universal history of war and revolution in which he evokes the complexities and tensions of postcolonial memory, finding images for the residual traces left by violent and oppressive political regimes. Contrary to the norm for much political art, Kentridge takes a nuanced approach as he explores the ambiguous, often contradictory dynamic which entangles perpetrators, witnesses and victims.