Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

Ceuta and Melilla are arguably two of the most contested territories in Europe. Inscribed with a specific history of military occupation lasting over five centuries, these two Spanish enclaves on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa have been protected since 1993 by highly militarized border fences. These borders are like multifaceted fault-lines[1], defining at once a colonial/national boundary between Spain and Morocco, an economic boundary between Europe and Africa, a geopolitical boundary between North and South, and a religious boundary between Christianity and Islam[2]. The two territories are part of what architect Teddy Cruz defines as the political equator[3] that separates the functional core of global capitalism from the rest of the world saturated with poverty, armed conflicts and political violence. […] www.xavierribas.com