Follow by border
Igor Ponosov
Follow by border
2025
screenprint on 300g offwhite paper
84.1 x 59.4 cm
exclusive edition of 25
Artist Information
Since the beginning of 2023, Igor Ponosov made several attempts to relocate to Europe as an artist and writer. The bureaucracy in Germany and France proved equally daunting, he says: „Each time, I had to submit additional documents and photos to new authorities."
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As some EU countries tightened border controls, Ponosov grew anxious about crossing into places where he could live and work freely. By December 2024, he was living close to Basel, where borders felt more palpable. There, three countries blend into what seems like a single space.
This sparked an idea: to trace Basel’s borders by bicycle, crossing freely between Switzerland, Germany, and France. He rode for hours, clearing his head and confronting the internal fears bred by bureaucratic struggles.
From each country, he mailed postcards to the art residency in Münchenstein where he stayed. The journey’s GPS track became a drawing—documenting both the act of border-crossing and the artists emotional state, a map of external and internal boundaries that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
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