Today, customs posts have been stripped of their primary function, they stand there

like monuments bearing witness to both, a bygone epoch and border policy.

They mark a frontier now transparent and fluid. Some of these places have vanished,

others like Perl and Nennig have been rehabilitated, and as irony would have it,

transformed intoa Turkish kebab snack barand a bazaar selling bric-a-brac.

Borderline, invited artists to reinstate and reoccupy these abandoned customs offices,

these border outposts between Luxemburg and its neighbouring countries,transforming

them into places of artistic exchange.

Borderline aims to stimulate discourse on the notions of passage, limit, monument,

flow, exclusion, barrier, territory, vehiculation, otherness, etc.

Borderline adheres to a contemporary approach of investigating existing places

whose vocation is not habitually art oriented. Borderline is using the potential of

everyday passage to sow within it the seeds of the unexpected moment, the slowing

of the flow, the surprise effect, to create an event which escapes economic reasoning,

which is free, asking nothing except the passer's curiosity.

©Borderline 2007