Marco Noris s’endinsa en la frontera al Mume

El Punt Avui · 29.10.2017 · Last update: 21.06.2026 · Translation: AI · Project On the Border · Topics: el punt avui, press, en frontera, mume, borders

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The original article in El Punt Avui (Culture, La Jonquera) was published in Catalan: elpuntavui.cat. It is about «A la frontera», Marco Noris’s exhibition at the MUME (Museu Memorial de l’Exili). This English version is an AI translation for my personal archive.

The Barcelona-based Italian artist Marco Noris (Bergamo, 1971) walked for almost a month along the border line, following the Pyrenean range from the edges of Andorra to Portbou. During the crossing, it was impossible to ignore that this invisible geographical line was the product of superimposed layers of historical events, which surfaced in the form of boundary markers that delimit the separation between states. Out of that experience, «an exercise in plein air painting», came the exhibition A la frontera, which the Museu de l’Exili in La Jonquera presents in its lobby until 28 January.

In his work, 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 very idea of the border and the phenomena it carries with it: exile, exclusion, marginalization. Through his action, Noris in fact subjects himself to the same misfortune, to the fatigue and the inclemencies of the weather, which take on an allegorical meaning to refer, as he himself puts it, to «the wretched of the earth of yesterday, today and the future». The exhibition is made up of the drawings made during the journey, placed between a personal diary and a notarial record, which evoke the artist’s emotional connection with a context at once inhospitable and fascinating.

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