About – Invisbility and equality

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE EXHIBITION

I’ve always been a big documentary fan. As a kid, I loved to watch how animals lived and survived in the great wild. In my teenage years, I became more interested in crime documentaries, with an obsession for mental illnesses and later on serial killers, as I wanted to understand what could never really be understood. Eventually, documentaries on all that’s wrong in our world, such as climate change and the literal toxic impact of our industries on both humans and nature came to my attention.

All these documentaries, changed the way I saw. Things that I was never aware of, or simply blind to, became visible. The ones listed below were of a particular importance to the making of this exhibition. I hope that, in your own time and at your own pace, you will give each of these a chance to open your eyes as well.

SLAVES TO OUR DEMANDS

WASTED POTENTIAL

This short documentary shows the families that deal with, and even live in, our trash.

Cover image of the documentary Seaspiracy, showing a large hauled fishing net with a large amount of fish and our planet in it — Available on **Netflix**

slavery isn’t dead

Want to know what really happens out at sea?

Scene from the documentary Seaspiracy, showing a man thrown overboard into the deep sea

ANIMALS

Cover image of the documentary My Octopus Teacher, showing a man holding an octopus — Available on **Netflix**

EQUALS

A beautiful and unforgettable story that shows the unfolding of a friendship between a diver and octopus, teaching each other about the value of life.

CAPTIVATED

This documentary tells the story of Tilikum, a killer whale with 3 human deaths to her name. The film reveals what our need to control what shouldn’t be controlled can lead to, for both animal and human. It leaves us to wonder: How can we expect sane behavior, in an insane environment, from any being?

! Graphic content throughout the film !
Violence between whales & violence between whale and human

Cover image of the documentary Blackfish, showing a black and white image of an orca looking into the camera — Available on **Netflix**

A kid's drawing of a tiger crying in his cage at the zoo

EMPATHY OF A CHILD

Apart from the documentaries, this is something I wanted to show as well. It really spoke to me, as I’ve noticed multiple times how kids often seem to see the things we’ve become blind or even insensitive to. I dug a little deeper, and found that children believe that animals should be treated equally. Which made me wonder. If a kid can see the wrong in our hierarchy, why can’t we?

An article from The Guardian about how children believe farm animals deserve equal treatment to humans, showing an image of multiple piglets — Click **here** to read the article

CRIMINALS

GOOD AND EVIL

In this Ted Talk, Philip Zimbardo, the man behind the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, talks about how good and evil exists in all of us, and how our environments and situations decide what comes out.

! Graphic content from 6.05 to 6.40 !
Images from the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib

Cover image of the documentary series Inside the World's Toughest Prisons, showing multiple inmates behind bars — Available on **Netflix**

AN INSIDE LOOK

In this documentary series, Raphael Rowe, a man once falsely accused and imprisoned for 12 years, visits some of the world’s toughest prisons to reveal what life is like behind bars, and give inmates the chance to tell their side of the story.

THE FAULT IN OUR SOCIETY

In this TV show, it is discussed how criminality is a response to society. The show itself tells the story of the start of criminal profiling, in a time where serial killers became more and more common.

Cover image of the TV show Mindhunter, showing a collection of portraits of the main characters in the shape of an inkblot — Available on **Netflix**

MONSTER?

The infamous serial killer, Aileen Wuornos, is known worldwide as the “Monster”. In this documentary, some who knew her tell us what made her, exploring whether she was just a monster, or a victim as well.

In 2003, a movie was made about her story, using her nickname as the title.