Self-Portrait with a Strike Background was initially conceived as a “making of” for the touring of my exhibition Alexander von Humboldt Archive during 2019, but its images took the path of a fictional essay based on diaries filmed in the context of a widespread STRIKE: Haiti, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, France, etc. The general climate of these events was one of intense police repression, which has turned the CURFEW into a “habit of government.”