Significance:
Another typologies Becher style, yet I was really captivated by this series. Sculptural and abstracted from their real meaning, the objects and spaces on the photographs are charged politically and emotionally to the fullest extent. The power comes from my personal experience with traveling through borders. 1990s was a time when Bulgarians could not travel freely in Europe and I had pretty negative experience with that. Late 1990s up till 2007 it was possible to travel in Europe without visa, just passport. Once pass the Hungary/Austria border, the language on the road signs and store fronts is the only giveaway where you are. After 2007 I don't even need a passport to travel in the EU as Bulgaria is a part of it.
Such a huge change in 10 years!
These images are about time more than places.
Quotes:
1) "In present-day Europe, internal borders are losing their political and economical function of demarcation. But border posts are much easier to abolish than mental barriers, and thus we continue to be conscious of former borders."
2) "The theme of my work is that of former border stations at inner-European frontiers. In working with these images, what was primarily subject to modification was the background. Landscape contexts are no longer recognizable. Border landscapes become unspecific and exchangeable. Documentary-style sequencing and de-contextualisation reduce the border posts to a model." http://www.josefschulz.de/html/uebergang_js_eng.html
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