​The Kingdom

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

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‘The Kingdom’ is part of The Spiral of Containment: Rape’s Aftermath series, a multi-media immersive and experiential exhibition
by Mexican-Canadian photographer, cinematographer and foreign correspondent, Elisa Iannacone, featuring 25 hauntingly
beautiful portraits of rape survivors. The Spiral of Containment was first exhibited at The OXO Tower Bargehouse in London in
2018, to an overwhelming response from media and public alike. The exhibition was later shown at South Africa’s iconic home
of contemporary justice, Constitution Hill, in 2022, installed in the 25 isolation cells of the Number 4 prison. Consisting of 24
photographs, soundscapes and installations, and one holographic projection (self-portrait), each work in the SPRIAL suite of
photographs features a rape survivor, in a fictionally-constructed portrait - magical-realist in style. The images drew from each
subject’s recollections of their experiences, reframed and reworked into layered statements of empowerment, agency, and identity.
The portraits were photographed in a range of locations and countries, including seven in South Africa. The Spiral project, and
method, evolved from Iannacone’s own experience of rape, and therapeutic recovery. The 24 images are “colour-coded” into the
24 primary, secondary and tertiary colours in the colour wheel - with her own image, a 25th, monochromatic hologram. Iannacone
funded the project, which took five years to complete, from her work in war zones.

Retrieved from the Con Court Trust website: https://ccac.concourttrust.org.za/artworks/the-kingdom

More information about Elisa Iannacone’s Spiral of Containment series of which The Kingdom is a part at https://www.
spiralofcontainment.com/

IG: @elisaiannacone
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This artwork was donated by the artist and Just Art International to the Constitutional Court Art Collection (CCAC) in 2022. The CCAC is a programme on the Constitutional Court Trust, a non-profit organisation that promote human rights, the rule of law, constitutionalism and judicial independence in the African region - with a special focus on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. 

 

Web: http://ccac.concourttrust.org.za

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