A Camp is a Wall in a Forest (2018)

A camp is a Wall in a Forest, screen shot

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HD video (duration: 17 minutes)
Prints on aluminium
Carpet
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A camp is a place where mohajers live in a state of waiting. Mohajers are asylum seekers, refugees, and other migrants in precarious situations and their camps are reception centers, detention centers, and temporary shelters. Camps are often located in remote areas, effectively isolating the individuals living in them. They are facilities for storing humans, full of invisible walls, and windows to remind people that the world they can see through them is out of their reach.

exhibition view in Østfold kunstsenter
Østfold kunstsenter, 2017, Fredrikstad, Norway
Østfold kunstsenter, 2017, Fredrikstad, Norway
exhibition view in Gallery Lapinlahti
Gallery Lapinlahti, 2017, Helsinki, Finland

exhibition view in Gallery Lapinlahti
Gallery Lapinlahti, 2017, Helsinki, Finland

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