A photography exhibition titled “On Borders” is on display at the Daily Star-Bengal Arts Precinct. Jointly organised by the Goethe-Institut and the Bengal Foundation, the exhibition features the works of 10 photographers from OSTKREUZ Agency of Berlin, Germany.
The photography exhibition showcases that human beings have gradually settled across the entire planet. No ocean, no desert, no mountain range has been able to stop them. In the end, they have even travelled in space and to the moon. Tirelessly, as if this is their manifest destiny, they have transcended every limitation that nature and its laws have confronted them with. The only boundaries they have not yet been able to overcome are those that they have set up between themselves. Why is this?
A border is no more than an imaginary line drawn to mark a difference. This ends here, something else starts over there — a different country, a different people, another language, another belief system, a different skin colour. Most crossings occur smoothly, but once a barrier has been constructed, it can only be crossed at a border checkpoint. A barrier emphasises differences via fences, walls and gestures.
“On Borders” will remain open to viewing until January 4, 2015.
