Sergio Teubal's engagingly whimsical El dedo (The Finger) followed the election process in a locality where a murdered candidate's finger casts the crucial vote.
Also included were a garden of chairs from various productions, 118 human finger mold casts, and a video portrait of the opera singer Renée Fleming.
To prevent fraud, each voter dipped an index finger when casting a vote.
Voting kicked off at the mausoleum of John Garang, the former SPLM leader, with thousands of people celebrating Salva Kiir, Garang's successor, presenting his registration card, inking his finger, and casting the first ballot.
With a few exceptions -- Angela Bassett as Tina Turner, Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge and Beyonce as Etta James -- Hollywood has a long history of giving black actresses the finger by casting white women in the lead of films based on the lives of black women -- most famously Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra.
They look at Washington and see people pointing fingers and casting blame and saying one thing and doing another.
Soldiers in one part of Baghdad joyously waved their weapons and purple-stained fingers after casting their ballots, while only a few miles away, their colleagues picked through debris and bits of flesh in the gruesome aftermath of a suicide attack that struck a truckload of 27 soldiers who had just voted.
On Monday, after their anaemic 2-0 defeat at Houston, the club held a "team meeting" to "discuss ways to improve" – or, if you're of a more cynical mind, to point the finger and cast around for a scapegoat.
Each finger was cast in bronze, then painted white.
"Yes... it is already done," he said, wiggling his fingers as if casting a spell.
