The ICA is hosting the Southern debut of a gallery-sized art installation intended to evoke the burning of Richmond by the Confederacy as it fled Richmond at the close of the Civil War.

The exhibition, by artist Abigail Deville and called “Deo Vindice (Orion’s Cabinet),” includes a “sweeping assemblage of charred Colonial-style cabinets.”

The exhibition is open now, and runs through Aug. 18. Entrance is free.

The work made its debut in Los Angeles last year. It was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, as part of its MONUMENTS exhibition, which included the remains of several heavily graffitied Confederate statues that once stood in Richmond.

The exhibition's title is a reference to Richmond’s former Jefferson Davis statue, which bore the words “Deo Vindice,” a Latin phrase that means “God will avenge.”

“In the MONUMENTS exhibition, Deo Vindice was situated among decommissioned Confederate statuary and other artworks that interrogate the unresolved legacies of Lost Cause revisionism and myth-making,” said Amber Esseiva, the senior curator and director of curatorial affairs at the ICA, said in an announcement.

“Presenting the work here in Richmond allows us to continue that essential inquiry into power, erasure, and public memory in the historically charged context our location provides.”

The statue of Davis will return to its spot at Richmond's Valentine Museum later this month.

The ICA exhibition includes two events:

On June 19 (Juneteenth) from 3 to 5:30pm, the museum will host “Black Histories: An Afternoon of Programs at the ICA featuring Abigail DeVille Performance / Our Ancestors Were Messy Show”

Per the museum, “participants include Nichole Hill, the creator of the Our Ancestors Were Messy podcast; Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociologist, author, cultural critic, and contributing opinion writer for The New York Times; and Kymberly S. Newberry, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Richmond. A live activation of archival documents through a choral performance will be held in the exhibition Deo Vindice (Orion’s Cabinet). Through history, live storytelling, and immersive gallery experiences, we explore how Black history is not just remembered but also lived.”

On July 31 at 6pm, the museum will host “MONUMENTS: An Evening with Abigail DeVille, Hamza Walker, Hannah Burstein, and Devon Henry.”

The talk will probe what it means “to build, or dismantle, a monument in the twenty-first century? As our urban landscape undergoes a radical transformation, the question of who we honor and how we represent collective memory has moved to the forefront of the global cultural conversation.”

“Walker and Burstein, members of the curatorial team behind MONUMENTS, join Henry, whose company managed the removal of several Confederate monuments across the United States, for a conversation alongside DeVille on public memory, representation, and the future of monuments.”