William Kentridge has created a new silkscreen print on found paper exclusively for Whitechapel Gallery on the occasion of its 125th Anniversary.

The edition is one of the artist’s ongoing series of text drawings or Rubrics which feature text printed onto individual found pages, making each work subtly different. Kentridge often uses repositories of information like dictionaries or encyclopaedias as the background for his prints and drawings. In this case, the words ‘Poetry is Elsewhere’ are printed onto pages of the book Stellar Parallax: Formation and Solution of Normal Equations (11), Royal Observatory, Cape Town, 1946 - a book used to record the shifts in the position of stars in the night skies of South Africa.