Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti’s work ‘Still contemplating justice’ is a site specific text based installation on the Supreme Court steps as part of Epoch's latest virtual NFT exhibition UNPROTECTED (August 6 – November 4, 2022).

Trespassers of these steps will be punished.

Trespassers of bodily sovereignty will be inside making decisions.

The text highlights the absurdity in the fact that there are consequences for trespassing staircases and lawns, while sexual trespassers sit inside protected buildings making laws about others’ bodies. The interpretation of the Right to Privacy, what is private, who/what is protected and from whom, are not practical questions, but political ones.

At the entrance of the Supreme Court building sits a statue of a female figure called “The Contemplation of Justice,” created between 1932-1934. The title of Ti and Catherine’s work, “Still contemplating justice” speaks from the perspective of this figure, who (nearly 100 years later) is still contemplating the concept of justice from her seat—particularly in light of recent decisions that emotionally transport many in the U.S. through a time machine to a bleak past.

The font was found on a flyer from the 1930s advertising “Sex hygiene in and out of marriage”, a public lecture for women given by a man.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Nancy Baker Cahill

Carrie Chen

Vitoria Cribb

Elana Mann

Martina Menegon

Operator

Sasha Stiles

Hana Yoo

UNPROTECTED is modeled after the Supreme Court of the United States building and is organized in response to the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, leaving millions of Americans stripped of bodily autonomy. The overturning represents not just a constitutional crisis of personhood and an abject abuse of power, but one with a growing range of cruel externalities beyond forced birth; including preventable infections, lost access to crucial autoimmune medications, and death. The state-sanctioned criminalization and surveillance of those seeking and providing reproductive care has a radial impact on the health care providers, family and friends who are involved in supporting pregnant individuals. Increased morbidities, poverty and incarceration will be inevitable and widespread outcomes. It isn’t enough to go back to the precarious protections afforded by Roe, in which many, especially impoverished people of color, were already forced into dangerous decisions between their livelihood and safe healthcare. Many lawmakers have already vowed even more sweeping national criminalization of pregnancy and contraception (along with increased targeting of all bodies that are not cisgender, heterosexual and male) as soon as Republicans once again control both houses of Congress. Voting blue is not enough. Today, our voices must be heard in every possible forum, state and federal: Reproductive justice and equitable abortion access must be enshrined in the Constitution, immediately. In this historic moment, artistic interventions will play a critical role in provoking meaningful public discourse and action. EPOCH offers an accessible and interactive opportunity to engage the public through powerful artwork, shared resources, and funding for reproductive justice.

Collectors receive: 8K virtual exhibition featuring a compilation of artworks by participating artists.

25% of all proceeds will support reproductive justice and 50% split between all participating artists.