Compassion
Episode Number: 501
Might a work of art move us to temper our more destructive impulses? In what ways do artists' feelings of empathy contribute to works that tackle problematic subjects and address the human condition? This episode features artists whose works explore conscience and the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others. Employing stop-motion animation, drawing, and performance, William Kentridge creates poignant films and stage productions that transmute sobering political events-such as apartheid, revolution, and colonialism-into poetic allegories. Doris Salcedo's understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. With the pitch and timbre of an accomplished storyteller, Carrie Mae Weems uses colloquial forms-jokes, songs, rebukes-in complex photographic series that scrutinize subjectivity and expose pernicious stereotypes.
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