Musée Mohammed VI d’Art Moderne et Contemporain Collection

Border aesthetics
Steel wire and aluminum
30m
2015

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“1964: Beuys recommends the Berlin Wall be raised by 5 cm”

If Joseph Beuys ironically summarized the Berlin Wall conflict as a matter of proportion, it could be said that in the following work, I am summarizing the conflict of the borders between Spain and Morocco as an aesthetic-cultural issue.

The idea arises as an initiative that seeks to “approach” the moment a border is created or designed. As a critique, it emphasizes the moment when someone—namely the European Union, following Spain’s entry in 1986—decides to reconstruct and “redesign” the barrier that separates states and cultures.

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Through irony, this work aims to create design proposals for barbed wire, customizing it and making it more attractive—yet no less dangerous. By providing it with an aesthetic character that draws on Moroccan identity, the project seeks to participate in the creation process of an imposed border.