The Border Pavilion

The Border Pavilion

Curated by Raul Zamudio

29-09-01-10

Part of Jeannette Doyle CF Project

Research Pavilion, Venice, Italy

Artists: Anney Bonney, Robert Boyd, Stefano Cagol, Shahram Entekhabi, Scherezade Garcia

Ferran Martin, Cleverson Oliveira, Damian Ontiveros, Nadja Verena Marcin, Rikko Sakkinen, Avelino Sala, Julia San Martin, Teresa Serrano, Celia Elsamieh Shomal, Daniel Silvo, S et P Stanikas, Carlo Zanni

“I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me” 

― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

The Border Pavilion is a program of video works by international artists that focus on the global geopolitics of the border. As a component of the Research Pavilion’s thematic of engaging the Venice Biennial model of national representation in order to question the politics of its exhibition structure, The Border Pavilion extends this framework by encompassing what Edward Soja conceptualized as “ThirdSpace” and Homi Bhabha’s notion of the interstitial regarding agency in the wake of post-colonialism. That is to say, a social space and subjectivity that is syncretic and protean and foundational for an empowered and emancipatory political imaginary.  

[The Immigration sign is an American highway safety sign warning motorists to avoid immigrants darting across the road. It depicts a man, woman, and child with pigtails running. The signs were erected in response to over one hundred immigrant deaths due to traffic strikes from 1987 to 1990 in two corridors along Interstate 5 along the San Ysidro Port of Entry at the Mexico-United States border ]