Medium: Handmade barbed wires, unglazed ceramics Year: 2021 to ongoing
Barbed wire is a recurrent motif—a symbol for borders, bureaucracy, and violence, and is one of the most important inventions of modern times, a western invention, again! It is used as an anti-refugee political tool consisting of hundreds of bristling points, creating a painful fence restricting Freedom of Movement. However, it serves as an instrument of economic apartheid by separating human beings into those who may enter.
During my travel over the last few years, I photographed different barbed wires used in other places to chase away the birds on the window, the walls on borders, and the garden!
When I decided to make a work that comments on the brutality of humankind, I kept the form of barbed wire but made it so fragile that it lost its usability. My version looks like a handmade toy with a malleable border- a sign of resistance of the people who escaped it.