No Exit / Sin Salida

Over the past several years, I have visited zoos and aquaria to document the ways we frame, display and interact with non-human animals in these spaces. While these institutions present themselves as places for conservation, education and animal welfare, their structures tend to reveal another narrative: one that normalizes the removal of animals from their habitats, the restriction of their autonomy and the transformation of their captivity into a spectacle for profits. In "No Exit", I approach zoos and aquaria as museums of human domination where the conventional rhetoric obscures the realities of captivity.