Iago’s Mirror reflects Shakespeare’s Othello, the story of a black, Muslim military commander tragically undone by his soldier Iago’s racist manipulations. Working with Venetian glassmakers, Wilson reimagines the concept of a mirror by piling mirrors atop one another, and reverses centuries of tradition by painting the glass’s flip side black rather than silver. The result is an ominous symbol of the tensions that drive Shakespeare’s own Venetian tale.

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