Kiluanji Kia Henda
The Geometric Ballad of Fear (8), 2019 Inkjet print on fine art paper Work: 100 x 120 cm
'The Geometric Ballad of Fear' is a series of nine photographs of idyllic landscapes on the Sardinian coast, between stacks, wild vegetation and the open sea. However, each photograph was superimposed on the structure of a grid, evocative of metal barriers of protection and repentance. The landscape scenarios, already anesthetized by the choice of black and white, appear inaccessible and forced into the distance, as if they were observed through a security barrier. The work evokes the walls and borders, physical and legal, with which the European continent has equipped itself in response to the arrival of migratory flows in recent years and which have transformed the arrival towards the European coasts into a trap, a geometry fear of a militarized continent.
