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Plaster sculpture and wooden mask mounted on a metallic plate and a wooden crate
50h x 50w x 23d
Masque noir, tête de Niobides literally represents the merging of African and Greco-Roman cultures and the compression of cultural difference. The research underlying this body of work focuses on making visible the ancient influences of North Africa on Roman antiquity. Figures such as the horned deity Ammon bring together Berber, Phoenician, Egyptian, and Roman gods. Carthage was crushed by Rome, yet the province of Africa Romana later became highly significant in Roman trade, culture, and politics, notably through the African Emperor Septimius Severus and his dynasty. Roman rule sought to integrate the best of what was found in the provinces; the work underlines how Carthage itself persists in Rome and elsewhere through a plethora of cultural and iconographic influences.