Othello, Shakespeare’s tragic protagonist, suffers from epileptic seizures, one of which takes place when he is told that his wife has betrayed him. The event is a foreshadowing of things to come and of his downfall. In Kiluanji Kia Henda’s exhibition “Something Happened on the Way to Heaven” (curated by Luigi Fassi), the first work that greeted the viewer, Reliquary of a Shipwrecked Dream, 2019, centers a fallen bronze head, modeled after that of Orlando Sérgio, the first Black thespian to play Othello in a Portuguese theater. Though Othello has usually been described as a tale of jealousy,