The networks, affiliations, knowledge, linguistic competences and other
circumstances of the contributors and the curator affected the selection. All visitors
to the exhibition are likely to come up with women who were, again, excluded or feel
that a particular portrait should rather hang in another hall, a higher floor, a different
corridor. The exhibition does not complete any of its objectives fully, it only marks a
start of a general, systematic mapping and analysis of ‘women in international law’.
The temporary exhibition’s aim of bringing under the benevolent presumption of
professional and intellectual value a broader, more heterodox imagery of ‘international
lawyers’ is, however, permanent: it wishes to bestow recognition and authority
not only to those portrayed, but others who should have been included. All
visitors are therefore issued an invitation for a continuous re- curation: please join
the workshop of hands- on- activities and produce a portrait of your ancestor(s) in
international law or those of your next-door intellectual neighbour.