The internal dynamics of the Church itself, attentive to the promptings of the divine Bridegroom and the unique challenges
posed to the Great Commission
by late
modernity and postmodernity, have, together, impelled a new evolution in the Church's self - understanding and self - expression.
When Francesco Bonami, director of last summer's Venice Biennale, famously wrote in his exhibition catalogue that «The «Grand Show» of the 21st century must allow multiplicity, diversity and contradiction to exist inside the structure of an exhibition... a world where the conflicts of globalization are met
by the romantic dreams of a new
modernity,» it was reasonable to imagine that he was responding to structural and thematic questions
posed by Okwui Enwezor in his Documenta 11 of the preceding year.