The exhibition features recent works by three artists who have been in residence at Casa de Velázquez during the academic years 2022 and 2023, and two who will be awarded fellowships from September 2023. All five approach the notion of the border in their work from different prisms that go beyond the geographical facet and question their identity as border dwellers.
La noche de la frontera, whose title echoes Charbit's proposal, aims to broaden the usual meanings of the border and put an end to the confinement of the frontier, the non-place or an exclusively conflictual zone. The night that titles the exhibition is reiterative, representing not an end but a passage, and in itself serves as a metaphor for the border: it is the time necessarily traveled between two days, a space of death and life, of poetry, to be claimed and explored.
The exhibition is proposed as a journey along various symbolic frontiers. They reveal the generative capacity of intermediate space, provoking unexpected encounters and serving as a framework for interdisciplinary experiments. The proposal explores poetic meaning also through etymology, where the Greek word "metaphor" shares its origin with "transference" or "displacement", and reflects the intrinsic relationship between creativity and transference.In this context, it highlights the difficulty of transcending borders and the effort required to adapt to this space devoid of clear references, in order to appreciate its potential and become part of it.
Featured artists: Milena Charbit, Arash Fayez, Jeanne Lafon, Olivia Funes Lastra and Assoukrou Aké.
