Prof. Helen Keller x Anna Anderegg: Climate Rights

Climate lawsuits brought before national and international courts challenge existing legal systems. They raise fundamental questions about justice — questions that transcend both time and geography. The vulnerability of specific groups — such as children and youth, elderly people with pre-existing conditions, island residents, people from remote mountain villages, or Indigenous communities — becomes a powerful lever for human rights. What may first appear as weakness turns into strength. In doing so, climate litigation has the potential to overturn traditional social structures.

Who is visible within our legal system — and who remains excluded? Photographic overlays serve as a central medium to physically negotiate this question. Individual bodies appear fragmented, partially cropped, or dissolve into the crowd — an attempt to make the absent visible. Vulnerability is not shown solely as a state of exposure but also as a source of resilience. In the density of bodies, the accumulation of experience becomes palpable — pointing to the transformative potential of collective agency.

Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Helen  Keller –  Professor and Head of the Keller Chair at the  Institute for International Law and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich
Anna Anderegg - Interdisciplinary performance artist

Produced by Textil AG in Switzerland with Biella Yarn.