ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ/Cerrado

ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ is a short documentary film shot between 2017 and 2018 on the island of Leros, Greece, which housed a psychiatric hospital infamous for its practices of confinement in subhuman conditions, and which currently functions as a Refugee Internment Centre, located in the middle of a paradise island with intense tourist activity. From this space, the film draws parallels between psychiatrisation, contemporary necropolitics and current forms of social control.

The work criticises the recycling of the architectures of confinement, as well as the media pornomystery consumed by privileged sectors, in which the suffering of others becomes a spectacle. It also introduces a reflection on the technologies of reassurance and loneliness management that operate on a daily level, in contexts of isolation and affective exhaustion, revealing how these devices, far from alleviating, can function as subtle forms of disciplinary desire that sustain and reproduce oppression. ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ exposes the historical continuities of oppression and the multiple layers that accumulate over bodies considered disposable.

Sol Prado
 

Sol Prado is an artist, textile designer and independent researcher born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is currently participating in a resident collective at La Escocesa (2025); previously she was a long-term resident at Hangar (2018-20). During 2017, she participated as an artist-in-residence at documenta 14, researching for a year in Athens, Greece, where she made her first documentary film. This work focused on the island of Leros, where she worked with a community of refugees who were detained in a former psychiatric asylum while awaiting the outcome of their application for asylum in the European Union.

She holds a master's degree from the MACBA Independent Studies Programme (PEI), directed by Paul B. Preciado, and is currently conducting PhD research at BAU (UVic-UCC) on interdependencies and reciprocal affects in global supply chains in the textile industry.

Her activist work includes the co-writing, within the collective ActivaMent (users, ex-users and survivors of psychiatry), of an alternative report on the violation of rights in Spain, which was presented in 2019 to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Geneva. She also collaborates actively with the network Internacional Errorista and is member of ActivaMent, a self-managed collective of people with psychosocial diversity in the first person.