The Visual Power of Voodoo Statuary

TIME MAGAZINE
April 13, 2011

FRANCE - Given our fascination, and voodoo's lurid position in popular culture, it is surprising that the extraordinary sculpture of voodoo's African birthplace has never been seen in a major exhibition. The anomaly has been rectified by the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris is presenting "Vodun: African Voodoo" until Sept. 25. The show brings together some 100 works of statuary, or bocio, born of this 1,000-year-old belief system. To believers, bocio are mediators with the spirit world, granting supplications and conferring protection, and they are designed to impress. [link]