Original artwork description:

64x84 cm | Filler, pine panel

The dimensions of the grey rectangle in the painting correspond to a European passport. Passports function as measures of privilege within today’s global neoliberal order. Holders of certain passports can travel freely and pursue happiness wherever they choose, while others remain trapped in poverty and exploitation. Meanwhile, money, goods, and services are permitted to cross borders with ease.

Lines of perspective is one of the simplest means of creating a pictorial space. With language, we can make spaces that exist only in our minds. Yet linguistic constructions are also used to confine physical space and restrict our freedom of movement. Borders are nothing but lines on a map, but the idea of nation-states keeps them in place. The reality of global capitalist corporate colonialism is dependent on them. The principle of equal human worth cannot be fulfilled until freedom of movement is recognised as a fundamental human right.

Materials used:

Filler (coarse and fine) in pine panel

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