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  • What is »here« for some is »there« for others. Borders separate, determine territories, turn people into immigrants and emigrants, and distinguish different political systems and conventions from each other. With buildings and monuments, nations mark and visualise border demarcations. Yet borders can also change. German post-war history is marked by the building and surmounting of the Wall. In ›You are leaving the American Sector‹ (1964), Wolf Vostell assembles media images as collages depicting scenes around Checkpoint Charlie, while Meuser refers with the title of his objects ›DDR Wachturm und DDR Laster‹ (GDR Watchtower and GDR Vice) to the guarding of the inner German border. Deimantas Narkevicius also reflects on the former border between East and West. For his film ›The Head‹, he uses historical footage from the inauguration of the Karl Marx Monument in Chemnitz in 1971. Borders, however, are not only territorial. In Lovis Corinth’s work ›Thomas in Rüstung‹ (Thomas in Armour), the portrait of his own armoured son becomes a symbol of interpersonal father–son relationships.
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