Do Not Cross

2018 Alberto Favaro

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Art installation created for the exhibition "To Be Defined" by Rima,

Spazju Kreattiv, Castille Place, Valletta,Malta

Link: https://www.kreattivita.org/en/event/rima-to-be-defined/

Project funded by Valletta 2018 Foundation

Photos  by  Alberto Favaro

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Short Description

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The installation “Do Not Cross” questions the notion of borders as devices dividing parts that should be differentiated. Conventionally it’s assumed that borders are established to determine differences and consequently circumscribe them in space. This assumption that our world is geometrically divisible into systems of different belonging that ends in the exact place where the next one starts does not take in consideration all what ends up in between. On a matter of fact, perhaps because of a wrong alignment between reality and its territorial definition, life of people often ends up trapped halfway between these confines, more than to be helpfully disposed by them. Borders operates frequently paralyzing the undifferentiated through disabling, more than ordering sedately the differences (assuming there is a need for). That said, to the drama of people crossing borders, it’s added the drama of people crossed by borders in turn, forced living split lives.