Don’t lose your head, in the name of freedom af speech. Keep fighting for your right to say what you feel. Keep fighting for other people’s rights to offend you.

This is the paradox: When the freedom loving and open minded democratic people welcome the non-democratic thinking people into their world, it can easily happen that these fascistic minded people will succeed with convincing the sleepy crowds into voting for the fascists with the use of populistic slogans, xenophobia, easy empty solutions and funding from foreign dictatorships.

Once they do get into power they will close the parliaments and end the very democratic tradition which helped them into power. Germany 1932. Russia 2003, Hungary, Turkey, Iran.

The head on the stick is historically a symbol of primitive power where tyrants the citizens to stop criticising undemocratic system and was originally presented at the exhibition Super Crash at Randers Art Museum in 2019 and was the centre piece in the the group show Political Art at Ujazdowski Museum Warsaw in 2022.

The original sculpture is a cast of Kristian Hornsleth’s head and it is made from synthetic material and each of the 5000 real human hairs have been inserted manually. There are only ten of the heads like this one. Don’t lose your hope – good luck!