Dialectic of Border

[Danube, Calafat, Romania – custom, border with Bulgaria]

The project proposes a vision upon limit from the view of encountering of two essentially distinct mediums, the earth and the water. The encounter of the river Danube with the bank edifies in a black and white photo documentary, which will be presented in three slide show projections.

The initial choice of the river finds essence in its potentially giving borders, meanwhile in the existence of a setting up tension, proper to these two matters which meet.
In the antique Greeks’ cosmogonies, the border between limited and unlimited used to be comprehended as piercing a huge archway, stars, behind it being a great fire. This is a dialectical conveyance, which was specializing human thinking between a here and a there.
Nowadays, this border is no more the product of a dialectical thinking between a physical here and a metaphysical there. We find ourselves in a time where the existence transforms the dialectical thinking binding being—non-being, limited—unlimited in a plurality of map drawing beings, whose banks touch. Banks’ touching frees the limit and it offers the possibility of retracing it to infinite.

The first projection presents a circular bank cutting up, which leads to a peratologic interpretation of the river, designing a re—positioning inside this world of space and time, of river and of Europe.
The circular relation of the bank and the river confronts, therefore, the viewer with the outrunning projection of the river’s current functionality towards a point where limit may be understood as dialectical movement of here and there.
In bank I have traced a dialectic which is geometry aware of its frailty, occurring, through this limit exposure. This frailty denounces the precariousness of here—there dialectic, but it creates, in the same time, enough imaginative space for surpassing it.

This depiction of limits’ geography is exceeded in the second projection, where the world, demarcated, is flooded. The dialectical borders are erased. The river, unlimited, is retracing its bank, with a subversive force, regardless and incautious to human wisdom.
Canceling the limit, the river gives birth to a possibility of retracing it to infinite, in a non-priory form.

In the third projection this infinite limits’ retracing stops. We face the impossibility of surpassing the border, due to banks’ deleting. Danube becomes callous and banks are lost. The frozen river closes the limit.

This history of limit is displayed in the three projections, firstly the border is formative, embracing an old dialectic, in its essence calling into being a geometry, then borders are endlessly reshaped, in the end being freed, the limit shutting.
What I do hope that the public will discover in the framework of these projections is a particular space position, opening other perceptive breaking of the contemporary radical geography’s borders.