바카라Soft Ruins바카라 is a chapter within the long-term ongoing project 바카라When Spring Never Comes바카라, an expansive exploration of memory, identity and displacement in the aftermath of exile within contemporary global politics. It reflects on how the journey as an asylum seeker in Europe mirrors the instability and threats of life under dictatorship, amidst rising right-wing movements and shifting power dynamics, where both certainty and identity are redefined