Visible Justice, London College of Communication, 17 April to 3 May 2019

Curated by Max Houghton & David Birkin

Collaborative exhibition and events programme bringing together artists, activists, journalists, civil liberties groups, human rights lawyers and media students from UAL’s London College of Communication. participating artists include Poulomi Basu, David Blandy and Larry Achiampong, Abd Doumany, Edmund Clarke, David Birkin, Corinne Silva, Nathaniel White.

“Dead bodies are strewn throughout this exhibition.

They cannot be seen but their presence is heavily felt.  For multiple reasons, some of which the work created for Visible Justice seeks to address, an uneasy feeling prevails: we are living in a time of emergency. The definition of emergency is ‘an unforeseen occurrence requiring immediate attention’ and derives from the Latin emergens – ‘rising up’. It is striking that the critical issues at stake locally and globally – climate change, knife crime, human rights abuses, safe migration, to name a few – are not, in fact, unforeseen at all. They are the direct consequence of political decisions and ‘legal’ or at least legalised actions that shape our world and culminate in fatal inequalities.”

Read full exhibtion text by Max Houghton here.