The Captivity of Freedom
Year
2025 – ongoing
THEMES
Exile, dislocation, national identity, privilege and punishment, civic estrangement, economic betrayal, systemic violence
Composition
Mixed media: archival inkjet print, newspaper clippings, found personal objects, printed bureaucracy, acrylic, resin, reconstructed fragments of public shame
Form
Fragments of civic narrative and personal loss — each work pairs state rhetoric with the quiet evidence of what it cost.
Origins
Lisbon, Paris, Oslo (emotionally)
I fled my home last year. Not from war. Not from violence — but from a state that categorised its classes as enemies.
Laws were changed overnight — calculated, unprecedented, despotic. Not to raise revenue — but to ensnare its own. Not to correct injustice — but to ensure punishment.
A quiet schedule of elimination — not of bodies, but of belonging.
Misplaced envy, weaponised and dressed as egalitarianism, built no camps and laid no tracks — but bore the same purpose of erasure. And the banished paid their own fares.
Our departure was not by force — but by confiscation. Not with bullets — but with shame.
Exile was not a moral failure. It was survival by necessity.
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Last departure
