Abd Tammaa

Marks on the Ground, Hands in the Air ​

Installation: welding screen, bench, outline figures, one channel video, two channel audio,14:01 min ​

'Marks on the Ground, Hands in the Air' unfolds as inquiry, where participatory witnessing becomes a collective labor, a shared struggle against the simplistic resolutions. The work embraces the ongoingness of meaning-making, considering: who is again doing the labor for justice?

At the installation’s core lies a video dialogue among artists and scholars based in Durban, South Africa, reflecting on the over-century-old painting 'La Paix et la Justice', which is hanged in the International Court of Justice in The Hauge. Their conversation oscillate between the complexities of seeing, testifying, and being seen. A welding screen acts as a protective barrier, a seesaw-like bench embodies the dynamics of engagement, while hand-shaped metal outline figures perform a choreography of legality.

This work engages with the complicity that accompanies the local and global performance of justice, resonating with the poetics of participation

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Installation view Weserburg Museum, Bremen ​

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Installation view KZNSA, Durban ​