F for Fact
Juliana Zepka+
Juliana Zepka is a visual artist working with video and installation on topologies of archival material and their digital reproduction.
Her interest lies in fragmented and missing narratives, in the unseen, the unheard, the unknown.
She graduated in Critical Studies in 2018 and Artistic Research in 2020 (University of Strasbourg, France).
How is the art of gardening related to international law? As both fields share the concerns of order and disorder, environment awareness, delimiting territories, establishing borders and harmonious ‘neighboring relationships’, Gardens of Law investigates these analogies in a visual and sonic installation taking the garden of the Peace Palace, seat of the International Court of Justice, as a case study. Through their authority, gardeners evaluate, frame and apply eco-logical principles on lands and their ‘inhabitants’ according to their needs. But to what extent is this authority needed to maintain a suitable climate of peace and cohabitation? What happens if these relationships are not mediated? What happens if there is no gardener in the garden? The installation aims to question the macro- and micro systems of gardening and lawyering as artificial enclaves that shape geographical, political and social (co)living spaces and realities.