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The Last Supper Revisited
1993
Mixed media
2002-3-1, purchased with funds provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,
Battle Creek, Michigan
In The Last Supper Revisited, the artist draws on intimate records
of lived experience and the effects of political violence on daily life.
The Last Supper Revisited tells the story of the destruction of
District Six, a multiracial community in Cape Town, South Africa. The
artist invites viewers to share the last supper during the Muslim holiday
of Eid al Fitr with the Ebrahim family, one of the last families to have
their house leveled by bulldozers.
The artist has set the table for this intimate feast with multiple resin
blocks containing scraps of precious and mundane objects culled from the
bulldozed site—"ironic souvenirs," in Williamson’s
words, that document this doomed community. The installation as a whole
highlights the power of art to embody social action, shared memory and
forgotten histories.
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