Borderland, Multi channel video installation, 2019/20

Borderland is a three channel moving-image installation that explores the effects of inhabiting, owning land and setting borders as forms of contemporary social trauma.


The work focuses on different rural areas in post war sites and explores the geological changes in the land to reflect upon contemporary socio-political situations.  Since the origin of the earth, billions of years ago, these specific lands have shifted and travelled across the globeb, each to its current locations. On its way, a series of earth-shaking events have occurred including mountains forming and eroding, volcanoes, oceans opening, and ancient rivers flowing. These lands carry the marks of such events today, visible through its unique geological features.

In collaboration with a geologist, employing drone, archival footage and digital maps Borderland uses this extraordinary land’s texture, as a metaphor to expose shifting borders and other fragile, yet dramatic social transitions, throughout time and history. Without a sense of a precise recognisable condition, the narrative is designed by the land itself: an out of time archive of pre- or post- catastrophic events and geological disasters.

Investigating geological borders within lands of constant change, the work aims to explore forms of contemporary collective trauma. In the film, rural landscapes and layers of rock formations and ancient terrains evoke the feel of a post- apocalyptic territory and allow us to feel closer to a certain kind of void, unfolding magical yet turbulent scenarios to reflect upon our era and imagine new worlds.