The audio-visual situation called Zone C (Cona C) explores migration processes through various aspects. It follows an individual who has left his/her domestic ground, friends, culture - the homeland territory - behind. The project focuses on the phenomenon of the border as a geo-political crossing line, which acts as a membrane, as a two-directional filter.

It appears as a border defining the power of one territory against the other, affecting the immigrant's position according to order and laws imposed by the state on either side. It is a game with different rules for different people.

"… Borders, fences, walls. Some preventing from exiting, others prohibiting entering. The Iron Curtain, Schengen. The Chinese wall, the Berlin wall, West - Israeli wall… This enormous snake (8 m high, 40 m wide, and 650 km long) is supposed to divide Palestinian West bank from Israel and prevent suicidal bombing attacks …

… How does a wall come into existence? By a mental barrier transforming into a material one! A wall that grows in people's minds materialises on Earth. An owner's wall, a defence wall, a border wall, a racial wall, a wall of prejudices and mistrust…

… It is much harder to pull down a mental wall, than one made of brick and mortar. Twelve years after the Berlin wall fell, there is still a mental barrier dividing Eastern and Western Germans …

… A wall is an excluding one-sided image of one's own distress. If we see another person in the wall mirror, we see him as a caricature: we are able to mimic only his most miserable, idiotic, vulgar gestures. We stick out our tongues, pull our faces and strain our muscles. The wall which should divide the allegedly different makes us even more similar than we would be if we didn't inspect each other in the wall mirror. Unfortunately, we are unable to recognise this unbearable similarity with our displeasing neighbours …"

Dušan Jovanovic