Borders. Studiyng margins to question the world - mobile exhibition
Borders : Observing the Margins to Question the World explores the complex and evolving concept of the border. On a global scale, the exhibition examines its multiple uses: as a source of profit and exploitation, a means of subsistence, a line of demarcation, and also as a living space. It also addresses the dynamics of crossing borders, highlighting human realities that are often overlooked.
In the 21st century, we are surrounded by frontiers: in the shadow of the walls erected across the world, in the fingerprints of travellers and asylum-seekers, in the camps housing thousands of refugees, or in the everyday lives of cross-border workers. Using historical, geographic, economic and human realities as a basis, the mobile exhibition Frontiers combines photographs, archive documents, works of art, media headlines and memory objects from its collections, alongside ten hitherto unseen cartographic illustrations.
Legende
Ad Van Denderen
Contrôle après l’atterrissage, sur la passerelle réservée aux passagers
Aéroport de Schiphol, Pays-Bas, 1993 / Série « Go No Go, Les frontières de l’Europe » (1988-2002)
Credit
Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, inv 2009.46.1
Objectives
- Question the way we see frontiers. Understand frontiers and how they evolve.
- Analyse cartographic sources and put the numerical data in perspective.
- Introduce notions of proportion and the relativity of data.
- Deconstruct prejudices and stereotypes pertaining to migration and migrants
- Foster a welcoming approach to hospitality.
In practice :
- 10 roll-up panels, 200 x 200 cm.
- Available in English.