“Before me were no things created except eternal ones, and I endure eternal.”
Presented May 2026 · 183 Queen St E, Toronto
The Soul has long been depicted in art and literature as the protagonist of a drama that stretches beyond life, death, and time.
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 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 — good and evil, love, suffering, and faith. Yet in an age marked by materialism, consumerism, and omnipresent technology, the reality of the Soul is easy to overlook, or to forget entirely.
The Drama of the Soul was a group exhibition organized by Theopolis, a collective of Catholic artists. It invited works that reflect on the existence, nature, and problems of the Soul. While informed by the Catholic intellectual and artistic tradition, the works need not be explicitly religious — each engages the theme with seriousness and depth, attentive to the gravity of the subject matter.
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