A versatile artist capable of spanning drawing, theater, animation, and opera, Kentridge has always constructed his work as a great visual and musical collage. Fundamental in this journey is the collaboration with composer Philip Miller, initiated in the '90s and over time becoming one of the most original partnerships in the contemporary scene.

When they seem on the verge of fading into memory, both Triumphs and Laments – a monumental ephemeral frieze created along the Tiber in 2016 – and the powerful processional work The Head and the Load – dedicated in 2018 to the history of Africa and Africans in World War I – Kentridge and Miller orchestrate their return to MAXXI with the innovative form of the cine-concerto.
The two works transform into a new original visual and musical experience, inviting the viewer to think of history not as a linear narrative, but as a collage of memories, contradictions, and resistances.
A large ribbon of moving images and an immersive sound landscape envelop the viewer in the fragmented memory of history.