NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
PRESENTS
IMITATE THE SLEEP OF STONES
ORPHEUS, EURYDICE, TRANSFORMATION AND RETURN
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
CURATED BY BURCU FIKRETOĞLU


Orpheus turned around, and everything after that is the art of looking back. In IMITATE THE SLEEP OF STONES, William Kentridge’s unmistakable hand raises a dark forest of trees, newsprint and messages inside the National Archaeological Museum, where rusted steel figures drift among kouroi, sphinxes and funerary monuments. At the core sits a room of his own, an archive turned theatre where memory is staged, gathered and lost again, and fragments keep the shape of what has vanished.