POINT MADE
Walls that keep us apart
When on the night of November 9th, 1989, Berliners hit the streets to bring down the wall that had divided their city for over 20 years, many saw this as a turning point, which should have been the first of many walls being demolished. Since then, the world has gone from around 11 places split by concrete, cement and barbed wire, to over 70. Since the terrorist attacks of 9-11, a near-permanent fear has been instilled into society, globally, and migratory conflicts linked to terrorism have become one of the most widely used arguments to justify building more walls. They are all intolerable. Visibly - intrusive and gray - and invisibly, for their insidious and imperceptible effects, which separate, oppress, limit and humiliate us.