Colin Wiggins in Conversation with
Ana Maria Pacheco
Colin Wiggins
Special Projects Curator at the National Gallery, London
talks to Ana Maria Pacheco
aclaimed artist and creator of 'Shadows of the Wanderer'
Date & Time: Thursday 6th October
18.30
Venue: The Nave
Chichester Cathedral
West Street
CHICHESTER
West Sussex
PO19 1RP
Free entry and all are welcome
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.