2025 | 18min | sound installation
MUHNAC
NATIONAL MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENCE
Exhibition “Movements: Revolution, Circulation, Borders” 23/9/2025-29/1/2026
artwork by Pedro F. Neto | research by Nina Amelung, Francesca Esposito
Presenting fragments from research interviews with migrants, activists, migrant-justice groups, lawyers and journalists, this audio installation —first presented in the exhibition “Movements. Revolution, Circulation, Borders” at the MUHNAC, Lisbon —offers insights into immigration detention and border control regimes in transition in Portugal. We wonder about the paradoxes of knowing and understanding migration and border control infrastructures: how do we truly understand the conditions of detention, migration and border control in Portugal when the voices of those who experience them firsthand are rarely heard, when data are not publicly available, when oversight is minimal, and when these systemsoften operate with opacity rather than transparency? What if, instead of safeguarding fundamental rights,bureaucratic management and detention systems not only fail to do so but, over time, generate new risks of harm?