Goodman Gallery presents Epilogue - Mikhael Subotzky’s first solo exhibition in London. Epilogue continues the artist’s critical engagement with the instability of images and the politics of representation.

The centrepiece of the exhibition is a new film, titled Epilogue: Disordered and Flatulent (2022), which is the third in a trilogy of films following Moses and Griffiths (2007) and WYE (2012). Accompanying it are a series of paintings and sticky-tape transfers that were products of  the film’s animation process, before evolving on their own terms.

Divided into four chapters and underpinned by a libretto written by Subotzky in 2020 and a score by Jonathan M. Blair, Epilogue: Disordered and Flatulent engages patriarchy’s shapeshifting ability to pass violence on from generation to generation. The film departs from the 17th century - a moment when the so called “Dutch Golden Age” and  “Enlightenment” in Europe coagulate with the international slave trade, imperialist extraction, and the colonisation of South Africa. Subotzky is interested in how the  art and literature at the time, through the 20th century and into the present moment, have both reflected and actively contributed to the colonial project. Interweaving the greater historical and political narrative of the film are two highly personal narratives that grapple with Subotzky’s relationship with his own father, and a man called Hermanus.