Black Leg Reborn

In this powerful Slow Art video, Mounir Fatmi revisits Fra Angelico’s Healing of Deacon Justinian through a triptych of luminous light boxes. The installation shows surgeons grafting a dark-skinned leg onto a pale patient, echoing Angelico’s miracle while questioning race, identity, and biopolitics. As you watch, shifting light reveals layers of cultural collision and surgical ritual illuminated in stark contrast. The mood is contemplative and charged—an ancient miracle reframed through modern intervention. This silent unfolding invites viewers to slow down, feel the weight of history, and engage in the ethical dialogue between past and present.