The picture Anti-Entropy was conceived by the well-known South African artist William Kentridge for use in his video installation For Refusal of Time, a thirty-minute film about time and space, the tangled legacy of colonialism and industry and the creative life of the artist himself. Kentridge plays with the concept of time by scrolling the film backwards, so that the image is erased rather than created.

Kentridge’s work reflects the struggle of the people of South Africa against the apartheid regime and the legacy of colonialism. His creative process has a political dimension, as it sets out to study the devastating effects, which political events can have on individual lives.

Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, where he still lives and works.