Kamil Dalkir

Borders: engineered discontinuities, designed to regulate the mobility of human bodies through bureaucratic filtration — granting or denying access based on arbitrary configurations of birthplace, paperwork, or political favor. Beyond territorial demarcation, they choreograph inequality: determining who may pass freely, and who must risk death by aquatic submersion, desert dehydration, or administrative erasure. At their core, borders function less as protective barriers than as technologies of selective inclusion and exclusion. Etched into our collective minds, borders declare a separation between “us” and “them” — those deemed undesirable — evolving into omnipresent, shape-shifting apparatuses: at once invisible and militarised, virtual and concrete.

And yet, how does one trace a violence that inscribes itself through absence?