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Fortress Europe
by Enar de Dios Rodrìguez
2018
Original Format: Installation: video 4’04’’, sticker You Are Here, biglietti General Admission, dissuasori.
Presented at VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet (2019)
Courtesy of the artist
Fortress Europe is a series of works that investigate the politics of borders within an institutional context. At the entrance of the exhibition visitors are given a customized entrance ticket (General admission) and a sticker (You are here) that they are asked to wear in a visible spot. These two pieces reflect on the limits and contradictions of the exhibition space by directly involving the public. Fortress Europe (promotional video) is a visual poem that reveals the ideologies behind the business of private companies funded by the EU to supply products for the securitization of European frontiers. The video is composed with found footage of promotional videos of these companies, while their logos are painted on the belt of a pair of stanchions that block the emergency exit of the exhibition. The artist’s intervention creates a closed border forcing the public of the exhibition to retrace their steps and to exit the venue from where they entered.
Enar de Dios Rodríguez is graduated in Translation and Fine Arts. Her artistic production includes photography, video, websites, poetry, installations and drawings. Her role as an artist strives to instigate reflection on alternative imaginaries, to dislocate fixed geo-political structures in exhibition spaces for unlocking new meanings. Her work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Künstlerhaus, Vienna; Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk; or in festival such as L’OEil d’Oodaaq, Nantes and Ars Electronica, Linz. She has been the recipient of the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, San Francisco, the BMWF Scholarship, Vienna, or the Creadores Residency Grant, Málaga. She has given talks at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University.