"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
Omar El Akkad
Caged Rebellion is a photographic project of analog double exposures in which Pro Palestine protests in Brussels, Belgium meet the interior of a former Stasi prison for political detainees in Bautzen, Eastern Germany. By bringing these scenes into the same frame, the work draws a direct line between contemporary acts of political expression and a historical structure built to suppress them, pointing at their co-existence in the present.
The series is supported by analog single exposures of the same locations. In order to enhance the relationship between camera, object, and context, the images of the Stasi prison were shot with a Werramatic, a camera built in the GDR in the 1960s.
Stasi Prison, Bautzen
Protest, Brussels
