Installation: In the Name of the Law Installation

The installation contains five paintings, three of them framed, one pair of scales, a table with a black cloth, one court record, a small hammer. Paintings. Acrylic on cotton. 210X100; 180X80; 210X90; 210X100; 210X90 centimeters. Wooden framing planks are 250 centimeters high. A special happening takes place on the stage of court. In court roles are irreversable. The accused has to remain silent. His entrances to speak are fixed. The trial may be written in advance. The proceedings file like trains in the rails. The points are already switched. The court performs like a machine. The lawyers seem to work like the middle ages in England the advocate exclusively continued to address to the jury, when his client dropped a coin in the pocket on the backside of the advocate's robe.Some minutes later he stopped to plead, when he felt the next coin drop into his pocket. So the lawyer functioned like a former times in Europe the judges wore white collars, ruffs and white wigs to suggest the importance and seriousness of their business.They appeared in those strange clothes to intimidate the accused and to impress the audiance. These days the lawyers still appear in the long black robe called >TalarTalartalars< and with their stiff and rigid faces demand the respect of the accused. The evil man/woman and the poor man/woman are the accused.The accused, the plaintiff and the witness are thought to keep silent while the lawyer practices his ceremony. Instead of a funnel he uses a microphone. If the accused or the witness or a relative in the audiance speaks out of order he can be punished to pay. In my painting-installation the lawyers are framed with wooden planks to pronounce their authority. So I put the lawyers some inches higher between woods to show their status of power.The accused are to be seen naked unframed on blank canvas. I show their status of coma. They are pale and fragile painted, hungry, frozen, split.One lawyer wears a black box on the shoulders instead of a head, metaphor of his character of a soulless slot-machine. He is holding a wheel of stamps in one hand to brand a human being with the stigma of failure. He regards and treats a human being to be his object. in my painting-installation >In the Name of the Law< I show the ambivalent character of an institution called >courtDas Gericht