{"id":751,"date":"2020-10-19T21:37:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/?page_id=751"},"modified":"2022-03-04T14:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:02:33","slug":"roger-eberhard-human-territoriality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/exhibitions\/roger-eberhard-human-territoriality\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Eberhard. Human Territoriality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2020 | Photoforum Pasquart, Biel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human<\/em> Territoriality<\/em> is the result of a three years research by Swiss artist Roger Eberhard, during which he photographed former border sites \u2013 both recent and historical ones \u2013 around the world. His apparently perfectly serene images stand in a dialogue with texts recounting the major and minor historical episodes linked to the photographs; often tragic, sometimes innocuous, and other times surprisingly peaceful. These places reveal the incessant need for demarcation between oneself and others in successive human societies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These boundaries have all shifted over time, in some cases only by metres, considerably in others, for a broad range of reasons. Conquests, peace treaties, but also non-hostile exchanges or even trade have constantly redefined and redrawn the maps. Climate change as well as man-made transformations to the landscape have led to new territorial alignments. Some borders have disappeared in the wake of the collapse of powerful empires and even entire civilisations over the millennia. Roger Eberhard\u2019s corpus of some fifty photographs, supplemented by their detailed captions, thus helps us to grasp the protean puzzle of world cartography. They allow us to grasp the instability inherent to these man-made demarcations, as well as the geographical, political and symbolic importance of these territorial boundaries. Devoid of any human figure, they invite us to contemplate and reflect on the ways in which a territory can embody the partitions between us and the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human Territoriality <\/em>est le r\u00e9sultat de trois ans de recherches de l\u2019artiste suisse Roger Eberhard, au cours desquels il s\u2019est rendu sur les sites d\u2019anciennes fronti\u00e8res, r\u00e9centes ou archa\u00efques, \u00e0 travers le monde, pour les photographier. Aux images en apparence parfaitement sereines, d\u00e9pourvues de pr\u00e9sence humaine, r\u00e9pondent des textes relatant les \u00e9pisodes historiques majeurs et mineurs qui y sont li\u00e9, souvent tragiques, quelquefois anodins, mais aussi parfois \u00e9tonnamment pacifiques. Ces lieux r\u00e9v\u00e8lent ainsi en creux l\u2019incessant besoin de d\u00e9marcation entre soi et les autres des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s humaines successives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces fronti\u00e8res se sont toutes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es au fil du temps, dans certains cas de m\u00e8tres seulement, consid\u00e9rablement dans d\u2019autres. Les raisons en sont multiples. Conqu\u00eates, trait\u00e9s de paix, mais aussi \u00e9changes pacifiques ou m\u00eame commerciaux ont constamment red\u00e9fini et redessin\u00e9 les cartes. Les changements climatiques comme les modifications apport\u00e9es par l\u2019homme au paysage ont entrain\u00e9 de nouveaux trac\u00e9s des territoires. Certaines fronti\u00e8res ont aussi disparu avec l\u2019effondrement de puissants empires, voire de civilisations enti\u00e8res, au cours des mill\u00e9naires. Le corpus d\u2019une cinquantaine de photographies de Roger Eberhard, compl\u00e9t\u00e9es par leurs l\u00e9gendes d\u00e9taill\u00e9es, nous aide ainsi \u00e0 saisir le puzzle prot\u00e9iforme de la cartographie du monde. Elles nous permettent d\u2019appr\u00e9hender l\u2019instabilit\u00e9 inh\u00e9rente \u00e0 ces d\u00e9marcations cr\u00e9\u00e9es par l\u2019homme, tout comme l\u2019importance g\u00e9ographique, politique et symbolique de ces d\u00e9limitations territoriales. Vid\u00e9es de toute figure humaine, elles invitent \u00e0 la contemplation et \u00e0 la r\u00e9flexion sur les mani\u00e8res dont le territoire refl\u00e8te un “nous” et un “autres.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2020 | Photoforum Pasquart, Biel Human Territoriality is the result of a three years research by Swiss artist Roger Eberhard, during which he photographed former border sites \u2013 both recent and historical ones \u2013 around the world. His apparently perfectly serene images stand in a dialogue with texts recounting the major and minor historical episodes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":182,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-751","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/751\/revisions\/760"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}