Fearless (2021–2022)

In the fall of 2021, the Blinken OSA Archivum, in collaboration with the Freeszfe Association, launched an ongoing series of programs to highlight the importance of speaking without fear. The initiative calls attention to the fact that existential fear—fear so profound that it prevents one from speaking the truth—is fundamentally incompatible with human dignity.

The program introduces both prominent and lesser-known individuals who have chosen, and continue to choose, truth over silence, often at great personal cost. These are people who have overcome their fear and, in doing so, risked their relationships, careers, livelihoods, and social standing to say or do what had to be said or done.

At the same time, the series also reflects on silence—the kind we all know too well: that heavy quietude which our sense of justice longs to shatter with a cry, and yet we still remain mute.

Through performances, films, exhibitions, and discursive events, the program aims to help us draw strength from the courage of others, recognize our own (often unacknowledged) bravery, and confront the fears that make it difficult to face ourselves in the mirror.