My friend and colleague the Swedish visual artist Cecilia Parsberg and me visited the country I was born, Uruguay. We met women who has been in jail with me, some of them spent 13 years in prison. I spent 4 years of my youth in prison, we all belonged to the Tupamaros gerilla or to other anarchistics gerillas. When we visited Palestine for first time in December 2001 we met Palestinian women who were jailed as well. And we started a project called "Law", where we are going to show the portraits of the women who broke the laws they considered criminal, they (we) wanted legalize the law. We are going to listen to their (our) stories, to see the filmed material we are preparing as "work in process".
As Giorgio Agamben says the laws of the exception who were made in case of war or riots are now being applied to everydays life, we have illegal prisons in Guantanamo, in Afganistan, in Egypt, we see people being jailed without any trial, we see politicians and legislators discussing the Gèneve-convention as oldfashioned.
We see inmigrants drowning in the shores of Fortress Europa.
Derrida wrote that right was not the same as justice.
In Tarifa, one of the most emblematic towns in Spain, where the Arabs launched their invasion in the 8th century, we want to share the work we are doing about the Law and those who break the laws to make them more just and more human.