Dictatorship Blue, 2024

90 x 60 cm

Light installation, architectural intervention. Dictatorship Blue printed on transparent paper.

This installation consists of twelve light-based interventions that transform the staircases and escalators of Hammarkullen Station into an immersive and oppressive environment reminiscent of incarceration. Drawing from the station’s brutalist architecture, the installation bathes the space in “Dictatorship Blue”, a color derived from bureaucratic stamps and documents that symbolize control, authority, and displacement. The color both illuminates and saturates the stairwells, overwhelming visitors with its cold, institutional aura.

The installation mirrors the architecture of confinement. The sharp geometry of the ceilings and passageways becomes a visual prison, inducing restricted movement and the psychological weight of surveillance. As the visitors ascends or descends, they experience a disorienting journey, caught between transit and entrapment.

Through the immersive use of light and space, the work reflects the bureaucratic systems that dictate the lives of refugees, while confronting themes of displacement, forced movement, and institutional oppression. The station, a hub for immigrant communities, is reimagined as a space where personal and collective histories of survival converge.