Dissuader: allegory of a part of humanity
that gives up on “looking beyond,” in exchange for pre-packaged tranquility and a pass to scavenge and peck in fields full of others’ leftovers. Dissuader is an indictment of the defenders of races,
Of borders,
Of the strongman,
An indictment of those who support “everyone in their own home.” The nails of the Dissuader are a response to the thousands of kilometers of borders adorned with barbed wire.
To endless walls of lamentation and despair.
They are a denunciation of those who sell unlikely passages and promises.
Dissuader is equivalent to a great urban fetish, a construct of wire bristling with nails and spikes, the same ones we use to keep pigeons away from roofs and ledges.
Metaphor of a mocking and paradoxical deterrent
– For humans.
Paola Riccitelli