mixed media installation Three videos, three processes, three columns representing the three powers related to justice: legislative, judiciary, executive.
OBRAT – Maribor, Slovenia, 2023 curated by: Lucija Smodiš and Simon Žlahtič
“Justicia-dulcis…” reaches out to politicians, judges, lawyers, police officers, and anyone involved in the administration, imposing, or executing the law. Multiple representatives of justice were interviewed and invited to a licking ritual, where the artists try to find the tastes behind the legal, judiciary, and executive system – or even the taste of justice; get a glimpse of the political potential of agreeing to partake in the exchange of self-tastes of agreeing to savor but not devour.
Justitia-dulcis is a deity encompassing all the tastes and self-tastes of others. We honor Justitia-dulcis for this capacity, in which we possibly degustate radical differences. We devote a space to her in which tongues intersect, where freedom of speech becomes lingual freedom. Tongues host tasting, touching, speaking. Did you ever feel the savory sensation of a word while pronouncing it? – Like “Justice” or “Law”.
Is it possible to experience what flavor these notions have in the mouth of a judge?
Our goddess calls us to taste justice. She preserves the self-tastes of others in sugar. Justicia-dulcis asks to savor them regardless of background or opinions. Her three columns are offered up as a ritualistic monument, as a moment to taste her diverging legacy, a degustation of tongue-tolerance.
+ Justicia-dulcis licking her three sugar-coated granddaughters who were led astray, OBRAT- Maribor 2023
thanks for the interviews and the collaborative spirit to :Franco yyyyyy (judge) Xxxxx yyyyy, ( judge), Tjaša Bobek(lawyer and yoga teacher) XXXxxxx Yyyyyyyyy, police officer
Pity the Maribor’s Major Saša Arsenovič did not answer our invitation
funduk* 