Untitled Pillar (2012)

Sandile Radebe
cardboard, glue, packaging tape
Exhibition view (column on left-hand side): ‘Appeal 2012’
Photo: Elgin Rust

Artist’s statement: “This pillar was a response in a collaborative project ‘Appeal 2012’ by Elgin Rust, co-curated with guerilla gallery. The project, which resulted in a group exhibition, included 12 artists who played the role of jurors. Our objective was to explore the process of the judicial system through our various mediums of artistic expression in order to achieve a form of aesthetic redress. I took on an architectural path by building a pillar with cardboard, which camouflaged itself in the space through other existing pillars. In that way, the pillar mimicked the invisibility of a layman within this judicial process. A plaintiff cannot speak directly to the judge for one, as well as the legal jargon that can elude a layperson and thus render them invisible in their own case. Ultimately, the piece spoke of architectural redress of the space as well as highlighting the process of the judicial system.”