The Fortification Wall is a digital photomontage of fortifications at the Corinth Canal. Its dummy erection in the exhibition area symbolizes the collapse of borders and certainty, orderliness, normality, security. It symbolizes the collapse of the negotiating areas, the severance between the inside and the outside, the rivalry, the blockage, the unsatisfying security. It reflects the agony, our expatriation, our perpetual never ending journey to what Heidegger calls motherland.

It is a spatial condition, an expression of the modern way of being, a narrative of social relations in architectural terms. A massive-imaginary wall without a gateway that would allow exiting or entering it, with panoptic holes of observation in accordance with the model of Bentham’s Panopticon.

The notional erection of the wall aims at the consciousness and at activating thinking in relation to the way of living in the modern fluid milieu, at the conciliation with the ‘Other’ and our passivity. It signals lack of borders, the lieu of the conciliation, the “Other’s” resistance, it places you opposite him, his control and his defensive wall. The ‘Other’ is present here before you and in terms of war, no less, without face, behind walls, symbol of the social collective.

Exhibition:
Master of Fine Arts Degree Show, Exhibition Area «Nikos Kessanlis», A.S.F.A, Athens, Greece 2012