Exhibitions Hall

«MURS», a visual study of borders

In an Europe increasingly conceived as a “fortress”, MURS investigates the multiple forms that borders take today. The project understands the border not only as a physical element, but also as a complex reality that can be natural, political, symbolic or virtual. From deserts and seas turned into deadly boundaries to immigration laws, biopolitical control devices and internal borders based on racism and exclusion, Roger Grasas unfolds a visual cartography of contemporary separation.

The photographic journey moves through key locations along global migration routes: the fences of Ceuta, the wall in Palestine, the beaches of Dakar, the “jungle” of Calais, the waters of the central Mediterranean and the agricultural camps of Huelva. Through these geographies, the project documents the proliferation of new architectures of control and denounces the power structures that, on the one hand, generate forced displacement through economic policies and destabilizing interventions and, on the other, criminalize those who are forced to migrate.

MURS focuses both on stories of resistance, dignity and survival of migrants and on the often invisible powers that sustain the global border regime. The project challenges the dominant narrative of the so-called “refugee crisis” and proposes understanding it as a profound crisis of values, responsibilities and human rights on the part of Global North societies.

Produced in collaboration with the Institute of Inequalities, the exhibition is supported by the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation and the Barcelona City Council.

 

From January 26 to March 25

Location: Exhibition Hall UAB (Building of the Communication Library and General Newspaper Library, Civic Square)

Hours:
From Monday to Thursday: from 10:00 to 19:00
Friday: from 10:00 to 15:00