March 04, 2014 - March 05, 2014
A combination of new commissions and recently produced works of art come together in this first exhibition to demonstrate the ongoing global relevance of the themes addressed in Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem, The Divine Comedy. This dramatic installation, exhibited in the entrance pavilion and on all three subfloors of the museum, showcases the height of artistic production today. Forty of the best known and emerging artists from 18 African nations and the African diaspora working in media as diverse as video projection, installation, painting, sculpture, textiles, printmaking, photography, and collage explore diverse issues of politics, heritage, history, identity, faith, and form. In so doing, they reveal that one person’s vision of heaven, purgatory, or hell might not match another’s.
https://africa.si.edu/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/divine-comedy-2/heaven/christine-dixie/
For more information on these works read Dr. Deborah Seddon's essay 'Paternity and Intertextuality in Christine Dixie's The Binding'. You can find this in Publications on this website.