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The 6th painting of this series is called “The corridors of bureaucracy”. This work is about the bureaucracy of things when you are already facing processes of change. Besides the material and emotional aspects of moving and adapting, immigration processes pile up a complicated barrier of rules, laws and papers, written in uncomprehensible and inaccessible words that require precision, knowledge, tranquility and patience, often not available in troublesome times. Demands energy and builds up the tension, amplifying the difficulties, doubts and unsecurities. The bureaucratic aspects of immigration are usually not the most difficult but is certainly one of the most stressful. It treats you as a standardised object to be in accordance with the demanded rules. It reduces humans to check lists of compliances. Bureaucratic environments are intimidating, sterile, not welcoming. Long corridors with unfamiliar faces, endless demands and unpredictable resolutions. You must walk it through if you want to overcome it. But at the end,  there are no certainties nor guarantees for actually making it. You can´t really avoid it, it is a test for resilience. Uncomfortable and unavoidable growing pains, found on every little corner of the long winding road we call life.

Utopia: a planet without borders, so people could follow their bliss and find their place in the world instead of struggling for acceptance.

Luciana Mariano

P.S.: All the works from this series can be seen and acquired at Gallery MākslaXO in Riga, Latvia.