Shibboleth! On Visible and Invisible Borders
An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Hohenems
In collaboration with the Jewish Museum Munich
While we are talking about globalization and international community, new borders, fences, and walls are erected all over the world—around states, occupied territories, and gated communities, between public and private spaces, between the legal and the illegal. Some of these borders are permeable and others fatal, some are visible and others reinforced by cultural codes, language tests, or biometric methods. Borders decide about life and death, “identity” and “otherness”, belonging and exclusion.