Photos: Sebastian Schaub
Transboundary Waters
exhibited in
Distances We Carry, Inside Artphilein (La Piscina), Paradiso-Lugano, CH, 2025
Constructions of Resemblance, VC7, Zurich, CH, 2024
Transboundary Waters reflects on the symbolic and geopolitical impact of water on national borders – and, ultimately, on belonging. The term transboundary refers to rivers, lakes, and aquifers that cross regions and nations—shared ecosystems that reveal the fragile balance between natural flow and political division.
By inverting the buoys and attaching gazing balls, the work transforms functional maritime markers into quiet witnesses of movement, stillness, and migration. Suspended in space, they form a fragile constellation of tension and reflection, evoking both the visible and invisible lines that bind territories, histories, and people.
The reflective spheres return the viewer’s gaze, turning the work into an act of contemplation: when we see ourselves, do we also perceive the forces that shape us—the borders we inherit, the currents we navigate, and the common waters that sustain us?
Buoys, steel chains, gazing balls
252 × 204 × 217cm (dimensions vary with installation)
Unique Piece
Photo: Vittoria Fragapane