◼︎ Borders I
Jasmijn Duterloo
2025
Cyanotype
60 × 90 cm
Unique edition
Matte paper mounted on dibond, presented in a dark brown tray frame
€ 1.155,00
Lately I keep thinking about borders.
They are recent inventions, drawn by people, moved by power.
On a map they look clean and certain, but on the ground they are often invisible. Still they decide who may stay and who must leave. I try to see them as a dreamer would. What if a border is only a story we agreed on? What if a landscape remembers something older than our lines? Maybe dreaming is a way to loosen what feels fixed.
For this series, I speak with friends and acquaintances, people with layered lives and shifting homes about the moments when borders became real to them. We talk about the lines between countries, but also about the ones beween safety and fear, between identity and perception, between self and society. "I’m not sure I’d want to live anywhere else. I love where I am," one of them says. "But if there were no borders, I think I would feel much freer. More at ease. It’s hard to explain. It’s just a feeling.”
