The border is a human construct, a man-made boundary, which separates, divides, and contrasts, while at the same time it functions as a zone of contact and neighborhood relations between two or more states. The different geographical, demographic, political and historical facts, the correlations of power and the different developments in the relations between various neighboring states, provide each border with its own exclusive physiognomy, its own individuality.
The project Borders studies the borders of Greece and consequently the borders of the European Union and Western societies. In the places of the borders, two narratives are unfolding that concern different times. The first relates to the time of memory engraved on the landscape by the claims and struggles of the peoples, the abandoned border landmarks and constructions for the marking, surveillance, and protection of territorial sovereignty, which shaped the place and the collective perceptions of it. The second relates to the current time of the border, as a place of restricted access, as a place of imposing power, which constantly evokes a sense of unease, anxiety, fear, and subjugation in anyone near them. The two times exist on the border to consolidate a definite and absolute territorial sovereignty that will last forever. The paradox, however, is that the borders always prove to be finite, fluid and changing. Borders from their birth bear the ephemeral. Thus, the project seeks to present borders as a contemporary monument, a monument to their inherent failure to separate the Us from the Other.