Borderization is a process of building physical, psychological, and digital borders. In the last 100 years, nation-states have tripled — and so have the borders between them. More walls were built in the last 30 years than in the previous 300 combined. New borders are emerging: digital ones. Governments pursue digital sovereignty while migration discourse oscillates between two ideas — that we are all the same, and that we are all different — both wrong.

Borderization explores this proliferation through data and metaphors: maps of political boundaries and physical walls over time, satellite imagery of border zones, visualizations of visa restrictions and economic barriers, archives of border-justifying rhetoric, and national firewall mappings.Borders can protect or imprison.

Maxim Imanou Fadeev (b. 1987) is a post-medium artist exploring the post-national and the transcendence of social and global systems. His work engages with identity, cultural memory, empathy, and the relationship between art and state — seeking to provoke reflection and create conditions for a more cooperative world.He works across performance, sound, installation, research-based art, speculative design, video, and hybrid forms.

He holds a Master's degree in Digital Art from Far Eastern Federal University. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Jerusalem Biennale, NCCA, Electromuseum (Moscow), and GoEast Festival (Wiesbaden)