Cytara

by Karin Sawetz, publisher Fashionoffice The appearance of double meaning in context with legal rights is normally not healthy for a society but in the following case, it opens the view on the legal system from two perspectives with the almost pedagogical intention to make aware that the people are responsible for the system - and that nobody can wash his or her hands completely in innocence when an inhuman or unfair law is executed. Where I made this experience? It was last Saturday in Lower Austria at the exhibition ‘Alles was Recht ist’ at Schloss Pöggstall ( alleswasrechtist.at ). The title ‘Alles was Recht ist’ can be read from two angles: the one is in the meaning of ‘Everything about justice’ concerning court, law, punishment, imprisonment,... ; the other reading references a typical Austrian saying which expresses embarrassment about morally unfair incidents backed by law.  The exhibition is divided into 5 chapters. It begins with the law book ‘Schwabenspiegel’ fro...