Transit zone – an informal border crossing ⋆

Throughout history, we have defined borders as “physical” manifestations of social order. A space that is in constant contact with the engaged areas of control and “security”. No man’s land.

In times of crisis, these invisible lines lead us to reactionary-reflexive, rather than profound solutions: put up a wall so high that only selected individuals will be able to cross to the other side. The Serbian-Hungarian border, a spatial structure whose goal was to achieve order, has become a place of segregation and a conflict zone.

The project manifests itself as a conjunction between two evading paths.

By surging from the landscape, it achieves continuity with the context. An entrance pathway, before the long-awaited opening of the curtain (fatamorgana). A space of distancing, observing, reflection, contemplation or a temporary habitus. The place of pilgrimage.