Borders is a 3D artwork that highlights the unequal struggle between two gazes, each embodying a dynamic of power, comfort, and repression. Through the confrontation of these two eyes, the work questions the nature of borders, both physical and symbolic, and the silent but relentless violence of authoritarian structures seeking to maintain exclusion.

One eye is housed in a broken shell, a position that, paradoxically, seems both protected and comfortable. Enclosed in its confined space, the eye is in a position of dominance, sheltered from external gazes, isolated but secured within a protective shell. This gaze is not just passive observation, but an active will to maintain its territory and prevent any passage. Behind it, iron barriers and debris pile up a chaotic and polluted reality, emphasizing the idea of a closed and exclusive system that protects its comfort at the expense of the other. The eye in the shell thus becomes a metaphor for established power, for those who hold comfort imposed by separation and prohibition. It does not seek to defend itself, but to forbid, to maintain a rigid border between the space it occupies and that which it denies to the other.

In contrast, a second eye, bare and vulnerable, crawls slowly on the ground, in palpable suffering. It does not flee, it does not seek to escape, but to reach the other, to cross an invisible barrier, to connect. The sand beneath it, rough and inhospitable, symbolizes not only a physical obstacle but also the intense pain of passage. Crawling in the sand, for an eye, is torment. Each movement is agony, a desperate effort to get closer to what seems to be a promise of refuge, yet remains unreachable. The crawling eye embodies the oppressed, the excluded, those who, in their quest for dignity, seek to cross the borders imposed by authoritarian and closed systems, but encounter an invisible wall, reinforced by the comfort and protection of others.

The contrast between the two eyes, one enclosed, secured in its shell, the other painfully seeking to escape the sand, highlights the power dynamic at play between those who maintain control and those deprived of it. The eye in the shell seems to be a guardian of borders, a representation of the established order, the will to preserve a status quo where the other remains outside, in suffering, in uncertainty. It prevents the other from passing, refuses sharing, refuses unity. This gaze is not simply that of a passive observer, but that of a power actively maintaining separation and isolation.

The title Borders echoes this violent and silent confrontation, the border is not only a physical wall, it is also a mental and emotional construction, a barrier imposed by logics of comfort, fear, and control. Behind the eye in the shell, pollution and debris symbolize a world that, under the guise of security and comfort, is in decline, corrupted by indifference to others. The crawling eye, in its desperate search for refuge and belonging, is a metaphor for displaced populations, migrants, the excluded, forced to live in a hostile environment, struggling to access resources and spaces denied to them.

This work highlights the systemic violence of borders, not only do they prevent movement, but they also impose unbearable suffering on those who try to cross them. Borders invites the viewer to reflect on the implications of these divisions, to question the legitimacy of borders, whether physical or ideological, and to consider the pain and resilience of those who, in their vulnerability, seek to break down these barriers.

In Borders, the artist pushes us to question the nature of our borders, to interrogate the comfort of those who, enclosed in their shell, refuse to see the other, and to understand that behind every border, there is pain, suffering, and an unending quest for freedom and solidarity.