Publisher Note

The project by Xavier Ribas for Tender Puentes addresses the representation of the contemporary European landscape from two photographic tours along the border fences of Ceuta and Melilla. Geographies Concretas (Ceuta and Melilla) are two photographic grids of 22 and 26 photographs each, in which the author visualizes the landscape defined by these fences that delimit at the same time a colonial/national border between Spain and Morocco, an economic border between Europe and Africa, a geopolitical border between North and South and a religious border between Christianity and Islam.

In the words of Xavier Ribas, these photographs are intended to be "statements towards a political mapping of the border fences of Ceuta and Melilla as the true border of Europe. The fences of Ceuta and Melilla are the contemporary public works that can best define, as monuments to inequality, the European landscape of the 21st century."

Photobook

Geografias Concretas

— Ceuta y Melilla

by Xavier Ribas

Publisher
Release Place Pamplona, Spain
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2012
Credits
Artist: Xavier Ribas
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-8480813259
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Europe, Landscapes
Language Spanish
Format Softcover
Dimensions 20.0 × 16.5 × 1.0 cm
Pages 64
Technique Offset