Floating nightmares
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Dates2018 - 2018
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Author
- Topics Social Issues, Contemporary Issues, War & Conflicts
- Location Luanda, Angola
FLOATING NIGHTMARES
Is a photo series that questions the future of slavery and human trafficking in dystopian
fiction style. In this imagined near future, smugglers infect refugees with a virus that, makes
them disconnect emotionally and physically from the belief that they have the power to
physically show resistance when held captive. The outbreak of the virus questions the
soaring death toll of refugees in the Mediterranean sea and the future of the refugee policies
in Europe and Africa. Physically the fictional virus positions the body as an object of
construction and production by destabilising the identity of the victim. The virus makes its
victims insensitive to physical pain and mental slavery. The resistance of the refugees is
paradoxically derived from its mental resistance to accept slavery while the body is being
dehumanised by its captors. Floating Nightmares uses the human body to portray the social,
economic and political impact of the refugee crisis and the rise of human trafficking as an
uncontrolled growing epidemic.