Limítrofe. Crossing Borders

By Helena Hernández & Pilar Cortes .
With the collaboration of Marcus Dyer.

The project focuses on the conditions of migration, movement and travel, where either for reasons of survival or recreation, one must constantly reaffirm and restate one's own
identity, actions, nationality, language and boundaries.

The documents required for crossing borders vary from place-to-place. They often depend on a person's status and what business they are involved in, whether political, economic or social. Monitoring mechanisms may seem invisible, but in certain border areas, in which the interests and stability of a country are at risk these records and documents are required and the underlying systems are revealed.

This checking of documentation materializes any time we want to move freely in other countries, access facilities, seek employment and so forth. One must prepare strategies to deal with the cracks and crevices; requirements of bureaucracy that cannot always be met. Such individuals become vulnerable; their freedom dependent on little more than the contents of a purse, backpack or suitcase.

The project aims through a multidisciplinary facility to transform the space into a non-place; a place where the processes and environments which make all alike, come together