"Heidi Hesse was born in Germany, grew up in South Africa and Germany and emigrated to the United
States in 1982. Recently, Hesse began to investigate and contemplate the meaning and possibility
of U. S. citizenship. She, as many an earnest emigre pursuing the American Dream has done
before her, began to read the documents and stories associated with the founding of the
United States of America. Through her investigations, Hesse began to identify a significant gap
between the rhetoric of liberty embedded in our documents and our practice of ’ exporting liberty’
throughout the world.

Exporting Liberty is an examination of citizenship and its attendant responsibility. It is both
a celebration of freedom and a critique of excess, an homage to democracy, and a warning
that the comfort borne of privilege can breed a dangerous apathy...

Welcome to America. Would you like to supersize that?"

At What Price, Freedom, Exporting Liberty catalog, Anne-Marie Russell,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, spring 2004