Vernissage | Frontières

Frontières - Borders. An exhibition organized by the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration in Paris.

The borders of the 21st century are everywhere: in the shadows of the walls being built around the world, on the fingerprints of travelers and asylum seekers, in camps where thousands of people live in exile, or in the daily lives of border workers. Borders are more than fixed boundary lines, they evolve and shift in time and space, depending on political and economic events. Today, they manifest themselves in a variety of points and forms and shape our individual and collective experiences. Nevertheless, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 led us to expect a world without borders, in which people and goods could move freely. In reality, the borders of the globalized world are reactivated and reinforced for some, while they are opened and blurred for others.
Based on historical, geographical, economic and human realities, this exhibition conceived by the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration offers the opportunity to understand how borders are constructed.This exhibition, conceived by the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, offers the opportunity to understand how borders have been built and developed, beyond the dichotomy between opening and closing, between nationals and foreigners, between economic migrants and political refugees. Thanks to cartographic representations, orders of magnitude and proportions are introduced into the depictions and the relativity of the data is emphasized.

This exhibition questions the causes of increasing migration movements on all continents. The aim is to shed light on the often unnoticed people and border "practices" in all their diversity and to analyze what is happening at the borders today.

Duration of the exhibition: May 08. - July 30

Vernissage: Wednesday, May 07 | 19.00 at the CCF
Language: F/D
Admission: free
Registration: kultur@ccf-fr.de
In cooperation with: Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, Institut Français Mannheim, Institut Français Stuttgart