Opening of the exhibition "Imagining the Border: Calm and Turmoil in Eastern Afghanistan—2015–2019"

Thursday, September 12, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

The exhibition “Imagining the Border” by @TobiasMarschall captures an imaginary world of isolation and reflects the complex relationships that arise from it.

The Afghan Pamirs appear as an anomaly on maps: a dead end, a spur, a final frontier, a last refuge, or even the roof of the world. The Afghan Pamirs thus appear as a place outside of time, because they are clearly off the beaten path. Faced with these representations, steeped in a colonial past that haunts the landscape with its traces, the use of imagery seems almost inevitable and decidedly ambivalent. The photographs capture the effects of war through contrasts, absences, and silences, but their aesthetic can also reinforce a vision of the border as a lost space, outside of time and history.

Exhibition from September 1 to 28

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