Following an idea of the fourth Surveillance 1-4 video, a short film Borderscapes takes us on a visual journey through idyllic countryside, natural and semi-natural places that spatially doesn’t reveal that it divides two countries from each other. On the other hand, the sounds used in the film are coming from a different border, the one that is witnessing less fortunate human experiences. By combining visuals and sounds from two different borders, the work creates a border landscape that is telling a story of two opposite kinds of borders – one that visually epitomises peace and tranquillity, and one that audibly instigates anxiety and suspense. Film’s auditory journey explores what might an illegal border crossing sound like, based on numerous real-life examples from Croatian and Bosnian borders.

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On a global scale, Borderscapes is bringing the story of our never-ending headless capitalistic progress. As Tsing said (2015), the world is obsessed with questionable progress where people are blinded by the concepts of unsustainable and forced individualism, leading towards inevitable alienation between humans and nature, and Gablik (1991) underlines that notion as one of the main reasons why art at times is incapable to penetrate social structures with pertaining social qualities. I believe that the work I presented for the solo show, equally criticises and celebrates human relationship with its environment, it underlines how toxic and simultaneously mutually rewarding this relationship can be, but at the same time, it's demonstrating that we are not doing everything to address some of the crucial issues in the current ecological and socio-political climate.