Dictators

Post-it portraits installation by Fuldesign

This work takes the terrifying weight of dictatorship and reduces it to something fragile, temporary, and almost ridiculous: pixelated portraits built entirely from Post-it notes. Figures who once demanded absolute power are here reimagined in the cheapest of office supplies, their faces collapsing into blocky caricatures that could fall apart with a draft of air.

The installation plays on two tensions: the absurdity of tyranny and the petty humanity of actual dictators. History often paints these leaders as giants of fear and authority, but in reality they were small, insecure, and desperately clinging to symbols of power. By rendering them in low-resolution and paper-thin materials, the portraits strip away the myth and leave only flimsy echoes of men who once thought themselves immortal.

It’s an invitation to demystify authority, to see dictatorship for what it often is: fragile egos propped up by fear, easily dismantled when we stop believing in their permanence.