Under the Roman Empire, the limes corresponded to both a fortified - natural or artificial - limit or pathway that leads to new territories to conquer. Today, if capital, goods and services move freely on a global scale, many people are bounded by boundaries shaped by historical, political, economical, or cultural matters. Limes - Voyages de frontière is a selection of videos from the collection of Argos in which we travel in order to understand how the dividing line between ici et ailleurs - here and there, home and abroad - is perceived, represented and questioned.

Works presented as a screening program in loop:
Pieter Geenen – relocation
2011, 23'30", color, English running titles, sound.
Sofie Benoot - Fronterismo
2007, 40', color, English and Spanish spoken, English subtitles.
Herman Asselberghs - Capsular
2006, 24', color, English spoken.
Sarah Vanagt - Begin Began Begun
2005, 37'57", color, Dutch, French, Kinyarwanda and Swahili spoken, French subtitles.

Works on monitor:
Shelly Silver – Former East / Former West
1994, 62', color, English and German spoken, English subtitles.
Till Roeskens - Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine
2009, 46', color, Arabic spoken, French subtitles.

Unfinished Histories is a programme initiated by Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo in collaboration with Médiathèque - Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (FMAC) that takes the archives and the collection of the Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine [Centre for Contemporary Images, CIC], Geneva, as starting point to reflect on the relationships between past, present and future and between the real and the possible. www.unfinishedhistories.org

Médiathèque
Fonds d’art contemporain
de la Ville de Genève (FMAC)
Rue des Bains 34
1205 Genève - Switzerland

www.ville-geneve.ch/fmac-mediatheque