Invisible Borders + Vera List Centre New York

05/10 Invisible Borders Trans-African Project is planning a day of workshop in collaboration with the Vera List Centre New York. The workshop will explore a mixed format of in-person/virtual (zoom) engageme

Emeka Okereke says: As we traveled through Aba in Nigeria, we experienced many deserted petrol stations. It created a perfect setting to create this work which is a subtle reference to the paradox of the oil industry and that of all ntural resources as a whole. It is important to note that this was as a result of a collaboration with Emmanuel Iduma, the writer of the road trip. Images of this sort embodies the many acts of interaction, reflection and collaboration between artists of the road trip across disciplines and mediums.

Image Title: Dilemma of the New Age(from Series: Exploring A Void) | Aba, Nigeria | Emeka Okereke |IB 2012

Essay

Invisible Borders: Building South-South Network far from The Madding Crowd.

13/02 In this essay written as a nomination statement for the 2020 Jane Lombard Prize for Social Justice, the artist Naeem Mohaiemen casts a decade-wide glance on the work and impact of Invisible Borders

Invisible Borders at the 12th Bamako Photography Biennale, 2019

Invisible Borders activities in the framework of the 12th Bamako Photography Biennale: Workshop, Public Space Intervention, Multimedia Exhibition, Presentation, Talks

The 3rd phase of the Invisible Borders presence at the 12th edition of the Bamako Encounters: An immersive triptych multimedia installation consisting of images, text and a 55-minutes long film from the 2018 Lagos-Maputo Road Trip. The multimedia installation can be seen at the Conservatoire Des Arts et Metiers, one of the sites of 12th Bamako Photography Biennale.

Exhibitions Projects

A Recap of the Invisible Borders Activities in the 12th Bamako Photography Biennale (Video, ENG/FR)

10/12 10 days workshop, public space intervention, multimedia exhibition, presentation, panel discussion

Affiliate Projects News

Invisible Borders Launches iVisible Project to Encourage Fuller Narratives About Africa

17/09 LAGOS, SEPTEMBER 2019 - Artist-led initiative, Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Organisation, is pleased to announce the relaunch of its iVisible Project.

Exhibitions News

Invisible Borders at the 2019 N'GOLÁ Festival, Saõ Tomé

17/07 We are happy to announce that our next project will be taking place in São Tomé, in the framework of the N'GOLÁ Biennial of Arts and Culture.

Exhibitions News

Invisible Borders in Cologne, Germany: A Volatile Negotiation Between the Past and Present

21/06 Invisible Borders will be showing works made during the 2018 Trans-African Road Trip at the 2019 africologneFestival Cologne, Germany.

Exhibitions

Re-Imaging Futures: A Trans-Nigerian Conversation

22/01 Between Feb 9th & Mar 9th, 2019, the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Yaba will host Re-Imaging Futures: A Trans-Nigerian Conversation; an exhibition that showcases works created during Borders Within.