Join us for a talk with Eliza Garnsey – PhD Candidate focusing on ‘post-apartheid South Africa’ – and discussant Dr. Duncan Bell on her recent research paper seeking to understand the relationship between visual art and transitional justice: how visual art encounters and affects transitional justice and vice versa. This relationship is explored in the context of ‘post-apartheid’ South African visual art, specifically looking at the art collection of the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg and the exhibition Imaginary Fact staged in the South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Biennale, Italy. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s idea of artworks as ‘constellations’ to conceptualise how artworks encounter, excavate, and effect justice within different spaces, the paper proposes a theoretical framework through which to understand the meeting point between transitional justice and visual art.