International touring exhibition: Borders and Beyond

International touring exhibition: Borders and Beyond
01 to 21 June, 2004 at Drik Gallery

The border is a place of anticipation, longing, and looking to another country – but also a zone of intensified surveillance with its own officials, police presence and military forces. The exhibition Borders and Beyond shows political, historical and social aspects of borders. Ten photographers from Denmark, England, Mexico, Palestine, Russia, South Africa and Switzerland selected for this project direct their gaze at places where different worlds and cultures collide, at borders that signify the end for some and the beginning for others. People and their destinies are at the heart of these photographic essays.

Flight across borders as the only means of escaping dire poverty. Borders that can only be crossed with special military permits. Xenophobic slogans on the other side that stamp immigrants as undesirables. Traces of illegal escape routes. These are only a few of the issues addressed in the photo exhibition, "Borders and Beyond". Ten reports by photographers from several countries and continents present deeply moving images of people and borders, of infringement, expulsion and discrimination. The exhibition will open 2 June 2001 in the border regions of Switzerland and will then travel aboard. It calls upon all of us to open our eyes and transcend borders.

We invite you to attend the opening ceremony of this thought provoking photography exhibition at Drik Gallery on 1 June 2004, at 5:30pm. Dr. Hameeda Hossain, Founder Member, Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest and inaugurate the exhibition.

The Exhibition will remain open for all untill 21 June 2004, every day 3pm to 8pm.

Date: Tuesday, 25 May 2004 at 5:30pm.
Place: Drik Gallery, House 58, Road 15A, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka


www.pro-helvetia.ch/borders


Manuel Bauer, Switzerland Tibet: Escape into Exile 1995
Jodi Bieber, South Africa South Africa – Mozambique: Illegality and Repatriation 2000
Julián Cardona, Mexico Mexico – USA: La Frontera 2000
Thomas Kern, Switzerland San Francisco, Chinatown: This Land is Our Land 2000
Joachim Ladefoged, Denmark At Home in Kosovo 1999-2000
Don McCullin, England Cyprus: Civil War 1964 / The historical Essay
Valeri Nistratov, Russia Transdniestria: Border Territory as a State 2000
Meinrad Schade, Switzerland Switzerland: Country of Asylum/Country of Transit 1998-2000
Randa Shaath, Palestine Palestine: Home as a Prison 2000
Roger Wehrli, Switzerland Gibraltar: Threshold of Fortress Europe 2000


Next Venue:

SPAIN
Barcelona and other cities Summer 2004

SLOVAKIA
Bratislava Photo Month 15.09.2004 – 15.11.2004