By my Side
Date: 2019 | Category: Exhibition | Partners / Funding bodies: Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
By my Side
BELFAST / MOSTAR / NICOSIA / BERLIN
Exhibition (2019)
By my Side
BELFAST / MOSTAR / NICOSIA / BERLIN
Exhibition (2019)
Borders can be seen as spatial constructions creating distance in proximity. Still living side by side, people are often physically and mentally separated from each other by these borders. As they are formed in the course of history, they function as its tangible or imaginary traces in the present.
The exhibition “BY MY SIDE” accompanies the Festival on literature and urbanism in divided cities of Europe, “Rewriting the Map”, and investigates the ways borders influence the daily lives of people in Nicosia, Mostar, Berlin and Belfast. Former front lines, invisible borders, concrete walls, boundary stones, soldiers, checkpoints, buffer zones…
How does a city look like when the continuity of its urban space is disrupted?
The photographs explore small portions of these cities and unveil diverse forms in which the lines that once separated or still separate people are manifested in these “urban microcosms”. Portraits and interviews show people dealing with the marks of history, the complexity of geopolitical contexts, their need to define themselves and the wish for reconciliation.
” What makes us special? What makes it particularly broken? I could try to phrase this in the right way… When I go to other places, I am always jealous of the fact that they can just start with a piece of art, it‘s like they begin at point zero. We have to begin further down the road. “
Jan Carson, writer – Northern Ireland
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THE RETURN OF FRONTIERS
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MOVING FRONTIERS
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By my Side
Date: 2019 | Category: Exhibition | Partners / Funding bodies: Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
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