The Soul has long been depicted in art and literature as the protagonist of a drama that stretches beyond life, death, and time.

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In the introduction to her 1949 translation of The Divine Comedy, Dorothy L. Sayers writes that Dante’s masterwork is “precisely the drama of the soul’s choice.” It is not a fairy story, she argues, but a great Christian allegory, deriving its power from the terror and splendour of the Christian revelation. Creative explorations such as Dante’s reveal that this drama of eternal consequence lies at the heart of life’s greatest questions and bears upon enduring concerns of good and evil, love, suffering, and faith.

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Yet, in an age marked by materialism, consumerism, and omnipresent technology, the reality of the Soul is easy to overlook, or to forget entirely.

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The Drama of the Soul is a group exhibition organized by Theopolis, a collective of Catholic artists. The exhibition invites works that reflect on the existence, nature, and problems of the Soul. While informed by the Catholic intellectual and artistic tradition, submissions do not need to be explicitly religious. Artists are invited to engage the theme with seriousness and depth, remaining attentive to the gravity of the subject matter.