The project explores attempts to escape from the GDR as acts of resistance, courage, and human longing for freedom, contrasting them with the current state of the Stasi Museum and juxtaposing them with materials from the Stasi archive. Rather than documenting historical events in a conventional sense, the project reinterprets them through a poetic and visual lens, focusing on the tension between surveillance and movement, control and the desire for escape.
The project includes materials from the Stasi Media Library (https://www.stasi-mediathek.de/) and uses the visuals with permission.
