Blue Light Sentence, 2024

90 × 60 cm each, 16 parts

Light installation, architectural intervention, Dictatorship Blue printed on transparent paper, framed light panels

Dictatorship Blue is a colour and method I developed from documents I carried and collected during my journey from Syria to Sweden. I scan and sample stamps, signatures and official papers, then transform these bureaucratic traces into colour. Through printing, painting and experiments with light, I use this blue to work with the violence carried by documents, where paper can decide movement, waiting, refusal, permission and survival.

In this installation, Dictatorship Blue is printed on transparent paper and installed as light interventions in Hammarkullen Station. The blue hue covers staircases and escalators, turning everyday movement through the station into an experience of checkpoints, control and passage. As people move through the architecture, the station becomes temporarily marked by the colour of bureaucracy, border control and forced movement.