Hot topic Debate: Refugees – problem or gift?
A debate connected with Ana Maria Pacheco's installation
Shadows of the Wanderer and the themes it explores
Date & Time: Tuesday 4th October
10.30am – 12noon
Venue: Vicars’ Hall
Chichester Cathedral
West Street
CHICHESTER
West Sussex
PO19 1RP
Ticket Price : £6.50
For more Details go to the Chichester Cathedral Website
'Shadows of the Wanderer’
presents a complex scene of twelve figures, each of them
larger than a human and carved out of a single lime tree.
Ten of the figures stand in the shadows around a young man
who is carrying an older man on his back.
These two central figures have been symbolically carved
out of the same piece of wood and draw from virgil’s Aeneid.
In Virgil’s ancient poem, dating from 29BC, a young man,
Aeneas, carries his lame father on his back and flees from
the burning ruins of Troy.
Pacheco’s contemporary – and challenging – depiction of this
scene resonates powerfully with current debates about exile,
migration, and the displacement of people who are trying to
escape persecution in our own day.
(This exhibition is supported by Amnesty International).
The Cathedral is open
from 7.15am until 6.30pm (Monday to Saturday)
and from 7.15am until 5.00pm (Sunday).
There is no charge for entry.