Political Rights
| CCAC #: | 0350 |
| Artwork title: | Political Rights |
| Artist(s): |
Kim Berman |
| Year made: | 1996 |
| Artwork type: | Paper |
| Medium: | Linocut on paper |
| Framed dimensions (in mm): | 380 x 502 |
| Artwork series: |
Images of Human Rights print portfolio |
| Source: | A portfolio was given to Judge Albie Sachs when he opened the exhibition of the "Images of Human Rights " portfolio at the Durban Art Gallery on 10th December (International Human Rights Day) 1997. |
| Year acquired: | 1997 |
| Installation type: | Movable artwork |
| Location area: | In storage |
| Signage: | The familiar image of people queuing to vote is used as a symbol of South Africa’s first democratic elections. The women gathering in the bottom right signify every person’s constitutionally entrenched right to partake in political activities. From An African Athens: Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa by Philippe-Joseph Salazar (page 141): "As the space of apartheid 'disappeared' in terms of legal segregation (a vanishing symbolised during the first general elections of 1994 by long lines of voters in single file—'maids and madams' side by side—and during the advent of the second general elections in 1999 by the metonymic placing of all voters on a single bar-coded identity system of registration; in other words, a single locus), spaces created by apartheid remained: black townships and white suburbs, sometimes blurred by population mobility and the rapid emergence of a black middle class." |
| Constitutional links: |
Political rights (section 19) |
Photographer: Ben Law-Viljoen
Photo copyright: CCT
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