Exhibition «En la frontera», by the artist Marco Noris

Aemic · 28.10.2017 · Last update: 21.06.2026 · Translation: AI · Project On the Border · Topics: aemic, en frontera, press, border, muga, exile, pyrenees

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The original text, published by Aemic on the occasion of the exhibition «En la frontera» (27 October 2017 – 28 January 2018), is in Spanish: aemic.org. This English version is an AI translation for my personal archive.

27 October 2017 to 28 January 2018
132 drawings and paintings (ink and oil), 12 × 17 cm, 2017

Being and making border is the main motivation of this artistic project by Marco Noris. For almost a month, the artist walked along the border line, following the Pyrenean range from the edges of Andorra to Portbou. An invisible geographical line that is the product of a superimposed layer of historical events, made visible through hundreds of boundary markers (mugues) that delimit the separation between the states. Marco Noris’s itinerary has a pronounced experiential character, expressed in an exercise of plein air painting. In this sense, what apparently seems a playful and contemplative attitude of the artist towards the landscape becomes an action that takes the form of a critical inventory around the fact of the border and everything linked to it: refugees, exile, exclusion, marginalization. That is, the distance, the fatigue and the inclemencies of the weather, suffered by the artist in his own skin, take on an allegorical configuration that points to the wretched of the earth of yesterday, today and the future. These drawings made in situ during the journey, which could be placed between a personal diary and the notarial record that reaffirms the line of the border, evoke the artist’s visual and emotional connection with a context at once inhospitable and fascinating, from which a whole new scenario of memory unfolds.

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