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EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION LAW The exhibition site is held in the Law School reception in the Fielding Johnson Building at the University of Leicester. In this site, there are two art exhibits. The first, entitled Consent – A Legal Definition, is made up of five posters, which sit in individual easels in the formation of the dots on a die (four in the corners of a square, and a fifth in the centre). These take up the left-hand side of the reception. On the wall behind the posters, there is a television screen, which displays the second exhibit: Kaleidoscopes of Law and Justice.

CONSENT – A LEGAL DEFINITION The five posters are portrait rectangles. The upper three quarters show an illustration printed in purple ink, whilst the lower quarter of the posters is a deep purple textbox with white text. The central poster’s illustration depicts a young woman. She is facing forward, and her gaze appears to be looking through the viewer. Whilst she has a neutral expression, her large eyes seem wet, but no tears are falling. Her long dark hair is floating upwards, as it would if under water. The woman is wearing a V-necked top with long sleeves, and is cropped above her waist. The top is dark and contrasts against her paler skin; it is patterned with soft and irregular maple leaf shapes. The image is cropped at her hips. The main feature of the image is that the woman is split in two. The split is as wide as the width of her arm, and it begins just below her right shoulder and goes diagonally down, stopping at the top of her waist and going through her left forearm. The edges of the split are rough, though curved, and at either end of the split, there are clusters of different sized fragments, in the same material as the woman’s top, that continue in that diagonal line. The illustration’s caption is: “A person consents if s/he agrees by choice, and has the freedom and capacity to make that choice”. Below this caption, in smaller writing, it says “Legal definition of consent (Section 74 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003)”. The front left illustration is of another young woman. She faces her left and her face is tilted towards the sky, with her lips parted. Her hair is long and dark, and styled so that it is half down and half tied in a bun. The woman is wearing a sari, patterned with stars. Three white, thick but wispy lines flow across her torso and the entire width of the poster; the highest line comes to the base of her neck. The image’s background is white above the highest white line, and below this line, the background is a pale purple. It seemingly depicts water. Her left arm is lifted slightly, and her right arm is bent, with her right hand loosely clutching her chest. Her expression is neutral though her eyes seem tired. She appears to be trying to keep her head above the water. The image’s caption says “Rape is when you are: Deceived, Unconscious, Incapacitated, Verbally Coerced, Physically Coerced, Too drunk to consent”. The front right poster features a young woman sat down, with her knees brought up to her chest. Her back faces the viewer, but she is looking over her right shoulder, her gaze meeting the viewer’s; she looks sad. Her dark, voluminous hair is pushed out of her face with a hair band, tucked behind an ear with a hooped earring. The woman is wearing a horizontally-striped dress that comes to her mid-thigh. To the woman’s left, there is a flat-surfaced stone, roughly the size and shape of a cat that has curled up to sleep. It is situated right next to where the woman is sitting on the floor. Her left hand is splayed on the surface of the stone, and her arm is bent at the elbow. Standing on the stone behind the woman’s hand is a wine glass half-filled with red wine. The caption of the illustration states “Nudity, Silence, Sexting, Flirting, Kissing, Petting, Stroking, Foreplay, Cuddling, Sexy clothing… Is not consent for sexual intercourse.”


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