Untitled I (New suburb of Tangier, placed in former mining region La Unión, Murcia Site-specific installation)

This artwork featured in BorderLands (2026). 

The landscapes of southern Spain and northern Morocco share many geographical and geological features, just as the two nations share a long and often painful history of migration, trade, invasion and colonisation.

To consider these connected and overlapping Mediterranean landscapes beyond their natural borders, Silva’s series of photographs of Morrocoan scenery were installed on 8 x 3 metre billboards in specific locations in Murcia in southern Spain.

The act of placing one landscape inside another connects the adjoining continents, knitting together lands that might have been one, back in the depth of time. This creates a space to contemplate not only the 2 countries shared topography, but also memory and ongoing political strife.

Image: Corinne Silva, Untitled I, New Suburb of Tangier. Installation view, BorderLands, Hay Castle, 2026. Image courtesy of Meadow Arts. Photographer, Finn Beales.

 

About the artist

Corinne Silva

Corinne Silva exhibited in BorderLands (15 May – 31 August 2026).