Trafficking is Torture.
Every year thounsand of young women are lured to the UK and brutally coerced into a life of sexual exploitation. Bought and sold, they are not visibly branded or shackled, but trapped in local massage parlours and behind the respectable net curtains of suburbia, they are forced to service punter after punter.
These women are not sex objects, but daughters, sisters and mothers with the same hopes and aspirations as you – to be happy, to live in peace, and to love life. By bearing witness to their experience and changing government policy, we can transform a degrading journey, into one of hope and possibility.

“The Journey” stopped this week in Vienna, Heldenplatz, thanks the Helen Bamber Foundation, the artists Michael Howells, Sandy Powell and Anish Kapoor and Emma Thompson and Sam Roddick, who all put togehter.

 

This art installation represent 7 stages of  Elenas Journey in 7 Containers:

1. HOPE. How it began –> She used to love school. Things were better til her father died. A woman came to the market stall and asked her “Do you want to go the England?”

2. JOURNEY. A darkroom, Noises. –> She was beaten, raped and at the end sold.

3. UNIFORM. Look in a mirror, and you will see YOURSELF as one of these sex victims –> A total diffrent ME, she wasn’t the same person anymore.

4. BEDROOM.  A disgusting smell, it’s dirty, there are bloodstains on the bed –> Her Workplace.

5. CUSTOMER. Photos of the customers, all types of men are customers, social class – doesn’t matter.

6. STIGMA. Is the black hole painted or is it deep? –> The black emotional hole.

7. RESURRECTION. The government said that’s a lie. She talked and wrote about her feelings, unforgetable impressions and her JOURNEY.

A really good made installtion, GÄNSEHAUT GARANTIERT… you have to see it, but be carful and take your time…

 Yours Anna

 Ps.: PLEASE WATCH the I AM ELENA film…