The featured images are the fruit of an in-depth, time-consuming study. Borderline is very much like a document of a specific area of current interest: the Belgian linguistic border.
The idea was to focus solely on the communes located directly on the border, and to photograph public events feeding the myth of a certain Belgium, and more pretentiously of a certain Europe.
Belgium is today at the center of some disheartening conflicts, while being largely governed by separatists with xenophobic tendencies. In this context, its three languages and seven combined governments turn this flat country into a European laboratory … and this laboratory is on fire.
Nevertheless, as you can see, the images presented here elude the documentary function through their form and arrangement, which tends to cloud the issue. More specifically, they lend themselves to manifold interpretations by actively engaging the viewers’ imagination.
– Charles Paulicevich
