{"id":1827,"date":"2026-08-25T18:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angelicaneyra.com\/?page_id=1827"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:36:25","slug":"is-it-really-freedom-if-there-is-no-where-else-to-swim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/angelicaneyra.com\/index.php\/is-it-really-freedom-if-there-is-no-where-else-to-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Really Freedom if There is No Where Else to Swim?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1827\" class=\"elementor elementor-1827\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b8f96f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8b8f96f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9b1e56 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a9b1e56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Is it Really Freedom if There is No Where Else to Swim?\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-354d557 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"354d557\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Video work of sardines overlaid on one another till they overtake the screen to disappear as quickly as they once emerged in an endless loop. There is a tragic, representational beauty to the sardines as they fill the screen and take their place, just like the ones that came before, all to disappear at the end. In a constant loop. These fish take the place of humans, more specifically citizens entrenched in neoliberal regimes where the only \u201cchoice\u201d isn&#8217;t one at all.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Of the apparent choices, you can exist to be a product or a consumer. But it is difficult to decide when it is inevitable that you are simultaneously both. The sardines swim in their prescribed places.We fill our prescribed roles, complicit in the system in which robs us. 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Video work of sardines overlaid on one another till they overtake the screen to disappear as quickly as they once emerged in an endless loop. 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