Title

To be Seen is to Be

Creator

Berberi, Mariza

Abstract

To Be Seen is To Be, is a sculptural piece that draws from the potent imagery of the cave-tomb of Sophocles’ Antigone, but also from Athol Fugard’s The Island, and Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics and aims to explore how systematic state violence renders certain lives invisible. The sculpture takes the form of a cave with its entrance barricaded with stones and wire, a direct connection to Antigone’s tomb but reimagined with contemporary elements, and examines themes of civic erasure, resistance, and social death in the contemporary world.

Keywords

resistance

civic erasure

politics of visibility

Subject

interdisciplinary

Date Available

May 28, 2026

Type

PowerPoint Presentation

Sculpture

Course

HHU 2230 Antigone's Dilemma

Course Offering Term

Summer Session 2025

Instructor

Remoundou, Natasha

Session

Honors Creative Projects

Location

Student Lounge

Event

Year 2026 | 10th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium