¡Ustitia!
2019

An invitational group show by moving poets Berlin. 200 sculpted concrete figures, audio, rabbit.

AN EYE FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH — the bedrock of jurisprudence, the code of punishment and retribution. A collective agrees on laws and delegates the rituals of judgment to ACOLYTES, its ministers in the battle between the contradictions of blood vengeance, forgiveness, arbitrariness, and violence.

Even though "judgment" is a traditional fundamental concept, no unified logic exists. Punishment and retribution are inherently subjective. Theologians were once concerned with maintaining divine order, Immanuel Kant admonished that law and morality should form a unity, and modern jurisprudence relies on algorithms to compare complex precedents. The task of ensuring harmonious coexistence, entrusted to the state, is subject to the capabilities of regimes, the crises of extreme ideologies, and the relative perspectives of dignity, reputation, and honor. To date, humanity has yet to develop a unified concept of the responsible individual.