Artist Project / A Life Full of Holes
The collapse of the colonial enterprise has left behind a complex legacy, bridging the Mediterranean and shaping how movement across the Strait of Gibraltar is managed and perceived. Before 1991, any Moroccan with a passport could travel freely to Europe. Since 15 European countries united their borders under the 1991 Schengen agreement, frontier states like Spain require Moroccans to present special visas, which are almost impossible to obtain. As a result, visiting rights have become unilateral across what is now legally a one-way strait. A generation of Moroccans has grown up facing this troubled space which manages to be at once physical, symbolic, historical, and intimately personal. The word strait, like its French—and as chance would have it, Arabic—equivalent, combines the senses of narrowness and distress palpable here.
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