Trauma art #3 Police sexual violence, abuse and brutality

Trauma art #3 Police sexual violence, abuse and brutality 99 - 120

One of those

30 x 40 cm Mixed media 2025

Stigma by Design: The Architecture of Silence

The Archive of the Unseen
Here, we document a fractured chapter of history: the deliberate dehumanization of those deemed "lesser" by the gates of authority, literally regarded as Untermensch. I was one of those. See also the curatorial statement

The Buried Truth
The State’s own ledgers admit to these violations; their confidential records whisper of breaches against the very essence of human rights (ECHR Art. 3). Yet, where there is admission, there is no accountability. Justice has been interred in the dark soil of internal reports, a deliberate act to keep the public blind and the guilty safe.

Sovereign Evidence
This is more than art. These pieces are sovereign evidence of a state-sponsored crime. They are a scream for truth echoing through a system designed to fail. When the world chose stigma, we chose to remember. When the State designed our exclusion, we designed our resistance.

Notes: (1) the images were made for processing, because also without a criminal record, there is no mental health care, no official recognition, no support, no peer group, nowhere to talk, no option to process this intrusive trauma. An attempt to set things right was impossible: there has never been any case and the state forgets that such trauma remains lifelong if not corrected. (2) the texts in the images depicted at this page is- of course- not my viewpoint, but is the language and perspective of the Dutch police officers in Zwolle, January 22 - 30, 1986.