Dante - Gaza

A linocut from the 2024 Dante cycle that pulls the medieval poem into contemporary political registers by naming Gaza directly. The gesture follows a long tradition of reading the Inferno as a moral diagnosis of present-day suffering, and aligns with Ho's broader practice of letting personal and political events enter her serialised print sequences. Composed as a single relief image, the print uses linocut's stark tonal range — cut white against printed black — to register the iconography of contemporary news photography and conflict imagery, distilled into the flat, emblematic forms the cycle's other sheets share. Within the Dante project as a whole, Gaza sits in productive tension with the more allegorical sheets such as Star, Shield, and Lamentation: the medieval source poem held against a 2024 atrocity. Ho's wider body of work has consistently used printmaking as a vehicle for ethical observation, and the inclusion of Gaza in a Dante cycle made during ongoing violence is consistent with that long-running approach to the print as a site of witness.