LIBERTY LOST (G20, TORONTO)

LIBERTY LOST (G20, TORONTO) is a response to the large-scale, repressive deployment of police during the G20 meeting in Toronto, held in 2010. The staged image is loosely based on Eugene Delacroix’s painting ‘Liberty Guiding the People’ (also called ‘Liberty on the Barricades’). Where Delacroix visualised the struggle for democracy in the 1830s, LIBERTY LOST deals with the city as hotbed of resistance, and the boundaries that are imposed by a democracy that functions primarily to protect private property and wealth.