Ilja Walraven & Helen Stout - Law of images
16 Aug - 7 Sep
Exhibition
The Saxon mirror ancient modern
In this exhibition, law scholar Helen Stout and visual artist Ilja Walraven present the result of their joint research into the relationship between art and science. The reason is the growing gap between legal fiction and social reality. What does it mean that 'everyone is supposed to know the law' at a time when young people read less and less and traditional legal texts are hardly accessible anymore?
Stout and Walraven investigated how images and art can contribute to making legal concepts understandable. Their starting point: medieval legal manuscripts, in which text and images still went hand in hand. At the centre is the Saxon Mirror, a 13th-century manuscript with a unique combination of legal rules and illustrations. In the exhibition, this historical document acts as both a source of inspiration and a possible blueprint for laws of the future: legal texts supported by images to reinforce their meaning.
The research resulted in a series of about sixty panels (122 x 100 cm), made with collage and mixed techniques. Each panel depicts an aspect of legal thinking, creating a layered visual narrative. The exhibition is a first exploration of the possibilities of 'law and image', a theoretical sniffing trip into the future of legislative practice.
This multidisciplinary collaboration invites visitors to look at legislation in a different way: not as a closed system of rules, but as a cultural expression that can also carry visual meaning.
Dates and Times
| Tuesday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Wednesday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Thursday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Friday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Saturday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Sunday |
12:00 – 17:00
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