Flash Art / 356

Flash Art International 356 Autumn 2026.

The language of borders has become inescapable. It shapes political discourse and public debate, but also the ways in which images circulate, technologies operate, and communities imagine themselves. Today, borders are no longer confined to the edges of territories; they emerge through infrastructures, memories, architectures, and systems of representation, revealing themselves as dynamic sites where identities, geographies, and forms of belonging are continually negotiated.

 

The fall issue of Flash Art, titled “Borders,” approaches the border not as a fixed geopolitical line but as a condition that permeates contemporary life. Bringing together artists and writers whose practices unfold across different cultural and geographic contexts, the issue explores borders as spaces of conflict and translation, exclusion and encounter, asking how art can make visible the forces that shape our present while imagining other ways of inhabiting it.