38.8415045024,-7.077379329 / 38.4295985372,-7.30221314393,

Untitled [border marker 802 + border marker 899]
inkjet print on fine art paper 315gr (with rectangular cutout in the centre)
72 x 102 cm

 

38.8415045024, - 7.07707379329
[22.06.19 — 15:53 - 16:38 UTC±00:00 / 16:53 - 17:38 UTC±01:00]
2-channel HD video installation, 16:9, color & sound, 45’ 02''
dimensions variable

38.4295985372, - 7.30221314393
[22.06.19 — 18:18 - 19:01 UTC±00:00 / 19:18 - 20:01 UTC±01:00]
2-channel HD video installation, 16:9, color & sound, 43’ 10''
dimensions variable

 

border-being [border marker in action]
single channel HD video installation; video monitor, stainless steel, concrete, polyurethane, metal; 4:3, color & sound, 00’ 21’’ loop
76 x 40 x 50 cm

 

Trip to the border I — 04.26.19 [map I]
Trip to the border II — 13.06.19 [map II]
Trip to the border III — 22.06.19 [map III]
Red posca pen and push-pins on inkjet print on studio enhanced matte paper 210gr
70 x 70 cm

   

“Raia” is the name of the line that separates and unites Portugal and Spain. Although stable for a long time, there is a “door” that both nations never closed - the border with the territory of Olivenza.

Ninety-seven border markers are missing, from the border marker 802 to 899, which the coordinates “38.8415045024,-7.07707379329 / 38.4295985372,-7.30221314393” refer to. This somewhat invisible divider of human thought is a “fiction” with genuine socio-political effects that define territories as a way of expressing our identity in the world. Here, the border is an invisible line, factually representing this mutability and this space-time movement through its history.

Thus, the 38.8415045024,-7.077379329 / 38.4295985372,-7.30221314393 project attempts to question this mutability and the physical hardness that these border markers represent.

   

Exhibition view at Vieira da Silva Municipal Gallery

 

Photos — Fernando Pina