Borders

Borders
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Actes Sud
Country
France
Published
13 January 2022
Pages
110
ISBN
9782330144715

Borders

In Borders, Jean-Michel Andre questions the notion of border, a question which takes the form of a wandering, whose starting point is in the Jungle of Calais on the eve of the evacuation of the slum in 2016. Andre pursued the project over three years in France, Italy, Spain and Tunisia - anywhere there were refugees in search of shelter, anywhere there were men, women and children brought together by the same hope of crossing one final stretch of water. With these images of the Jungle, he mixes various fragments of landscapes to form a visual palimpsest. These silent places never cease to signify partition, rupture and desolation and exhale the vertigo of emptiness. Desires from elsewhere become dust and smoke in these spaces where the human figure, photographed isolated and from behind, is located on a threshold, between reality and imagination, memory and present.

With accompanying texts by writer Wilfried N'Sonde, whose novels follow similar themes, together Andre and N'Sonde combine their disciplines the creation being Borders which is neither a linear series nor narrative - rather a collection of works.

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