Edmund Clark, Guantanamo
“A plain photograph of a rose in a square vase embodies this metaphor of the human torn between the interior and the exterior, a symbol of liberty enclosed in a suffocating aquarium whose transparency is compromised by the seepage of the stifled flower. This confusion caused by the conflicting concepts reaches its height in the video that accompanies the exhibition: we see comforting and humorous postcards as monotonous soundtrack plays in the background mixing testimonies of the horrors suffered during interrogations and the text of international laws applying at Guantanamo. These three diverging layers of information take on a new meaning, calling into question all that we think we know about reality.”