This work constructs a fictional regime to examine how power operates, circulates, and sustains itself through violence, obedience, and internalised control. Focusing on an individual’s rise within an authoritarian structure, it explores how ambition, fear, and desire for survival shape moral choices and social behaviour. Power is not only imposed from above but reproduced through everyday actions, as individuals both submit to and perpetuate oppressive systems.

 

The project also reflects on the instability of identity and position within such structures, where roles can shift rapidly yet remain bound within the same hierarchical logic. By presenting power as cyclical rather than linear, the work reveals a closed system in which domination is continuously re-enacted. Within this loop, notions of freedom, responsibility, and justice are constantly undermined, prompting the question: can individuals ever exist outside the systems that define them?