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The Weight of Absence
U.S. Department of Justice, Wikimedia Commons
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Linda Schneider
Uddannelsesgrad
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Design
Institut
Design og Visuel Interaktion
Program
Graphic Communication Design
År
2026
Udmærkelser
HK Privat Oprethavsfonds legat
From a redacted line to a removed image, to a post that reaches no one. Censorship moves between the visible and the invisible forms, from markings, filters, and acts of destruction to mechanisms that remain opaque and undetectable. This book explores that spectrum, mapping explicit and systemic forms of restriction. What do we see when we look at something not meant to be seen?
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This is our attempt to make sense of something vast. After navigating this topic for months, we realised that censorship has no single definition, no fixed boundaries, and no clear edges. It moves across spectrums and intentions, operates through entirely different logics depending on who exercises it and why—and produces, in all of these cases, its own distinct visualities. This publication is only a small window into that extensive world: a curated selection of material, shaped by what we found, what we could access, and what felt most urgent to us.
Book Spreads
Invisible Chapters
Hole Punching: Killing an Image
Censorship begins with a perception: that something is too dangerous, too problematic, too sensitive—too powerful—to be allowed to remain. An image, a text, an object, a story, an opinion, a voice, an individual: they all have the power to challenge the coherence of a group’s identity, the aesthetic and ideological boundaries through which any community, institution, or regime defines and holds itself together. [1] When something crosses that boundary, the response follows—destroy it, disfigure it, conceal it. This logic runs through every form of censorship, however subtle: what cannot be controlled must be removed, and what cannot be removed must at least be made unseen.
[1] Von Falkenhausen, ‘What to Do with the Power of Images?’, p. 12.
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