Events

Representing Law Exhibition

Pontio, Bangor

3 – 30 September 2024 

Research Committee on the Sociology of Law Conference

3 – 6 September 2024

Bangor University

Opening Tuesday 3rd September 2024

Representing Law exhibition is being shown and has been commissioned as part of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law Conference.  Given the very apt theme of the conference, the conference committee decided there could be no better an opportunity to envisage what representing law really means, than through artistic form.

A lot of us may actually think that law and art may be utterly different and cannot possibly imagine how the two may come together.  But what kind of art form must a lawyer ensue when standing in court, other than pure performance, theatre, and entertainment?  Are not not the words of judgments poetry themselves?  Is not art, and law, politics itself?

By thinking about forms of representing law, we have drawn together 10 local artists and 9 delegates of the conference, to bring you a fantastic array of photographic, installation, painted, etched, sculpted, poetic and sonic ways that our contributors have responded to the theme.