Description
In Lady Justice and the Heavies, Joyce Carreira presents a searing and unforgettable allegorical scene. This is not the noble, unshakable symbol of fairness we know. Instead, her Lady Justice is a figure of pure apathy, lounging in the pan of a massive scale as if it were her personal chaise lounge. Her blindfold slips not from impartiality, but from sheer indifference. As the artist’s statement reveals, this is a courtroom theatre where delay is a “slow suffocation.”
On either side, the two advocates, one pleading with desperate gestures, the other poised in argument, perform for a judge who is not listening. The scales, the very symbol of deliberation, “teeter on apathy, convenience, maybe even boredom.” Carreira masterfully captures the slow agony of waiting for a verdict that, when it finally arrives, is “late, tired, and irrelevant.” This complex, multi figure sculpture is a profound and timely statement on institutional fatigue and the human cost of indifference.
Artist: Joyce Carreira (SA 1972)
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