Reflection on Work of William Wentridge

As part of a conceptual tradition, we read painting as an illusion in its own right: not only as the deceptive impression of space contained on a flat surface but also as the emotional invention, almost a daydream, of an idealized foreign domain. By carefully looking, reading and re-painting Woman Combing a Little Girl’s Hair by Jacobus Vre , we are going to explore notions of source, mimesis, forgery, translation and originality in its broadest sense.