19 May 2018
Paternity
and Intertextuality in Christine Dixie’s The
Binding
Dr.
Deborah Seddon
In this essay Deborah Seddon, a Senior lecturer in the English Department at Rhodes University explores the relationship between the images and the text-based narratives Dixie invokes in her installation The Binding, arguing that,”… one of the most startling effects of The Binding is Dixie’s achievement of the visual equivalent of a narrative intertextuality. This intertextuality might be said to operate in Dixie’s exhibition as an extended metaphor for patriarchal paternity itself; in which the evidence of kinship is not always readily apparent and thus must be produced.”
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