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At the beginning of each year, we introduce

a group of artists our contributors think you

should be keeping an eye out for. At the same

time, and on the basis that art is as much

about ideas as it is about objects, we ask

another group of artists to propose some key

words and concepts connected to a theme that

seems important to art production right now.

This year, the invited artists have responded

to the idea of ‘frontiers’: at a time of heightened

concern about borders – between types of

identities, personal space, neighbours, nations

and news sources – how has our sense of defi-

nitions and divisions changed, and how does

this affect artmaking? Or, indeed, what agency

might artmaking have in relation to the shifting

notions of borders, boundaries or frontiers?

As a starting point for this minimanifesto, we

used the following statement by French writer

Georges Perec, one that gets to the slippery

nature of frontier conditions and their curious

elision of the real and the imaginary.

Frontiers PTO
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