The project departs from an odd statuette recently discovered at the World Headquarters of Eastman Kodak: on top, a 4-inch-tall bronze rendering of Nelson Mandela’s head and torso with fist raised; below, a wooden plinth engraved with the words found in the title copied above. Through text and video, this work will expand on several years of research investigating a 6-meter-tall bronze statue of Nelson Mandela gifted to the people of Palestine by the city of Johannesburg in 2015. While that project sought to understand the materialisation of inter-state solidarity in a moment sometime after revolution, this will critique the opaque history of a corporation’s response to the anti-Apartheid boycott, just before the fall of the regime.

Casey is an artist from Rochester. His work centers on alternative modes of political expression, and his research has included case studies in Palestine, Norway and Ireland. He holds a BA in Film from Bard, and an MFA from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, where he is visiting researcher.