In Beyond Borders, the artist Isabel Miquel Arqués dialogues with Karen Blixen (1885-1962), the Danish author who wrote under the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen and whose best-known books, Out of Africa and Babette's Feast, were made into hit movies. Arqués uses stunning photographs, serigraphs, and striking snippets of prose and poetry to link her own life with Blixen's. She made several visits to Rungstedlund, the author's former home and now a museum, where she photographed objects that Blixen used every day. These triggered a parallel and very personal story in the imagination of Arqués, which little by little became intertwined with that of Karen Blixen herself. Beyond the borders is the visual translation of the impressions that Arqués formed in the house of Blixen, the daily environment, the novels and the biography, all of which led in turn to new poetic images.
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