Borders exhibition at Talbot Rice

THE political and cultural impact of borders is at the centre of a new exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh.

The group exhibition, called Borderlines, explores borders, and has been curated to coincide with Brexit.

As part of the show, more than 300 blocks of sugar are geometrically assembled on the floor of Talbot Rice’s White Gallery for Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan’s Monument of Sugar.

The large-scale installation is made from European sugar that was exported to Africa and then re-imported back to Europe as a work of art.

A film on the Pergamon Altar – an ancient Greek monument now housed in Berlin – will also be projected as part of the exhibition.

Turner-prize nominated Willie Doherty’s photographic work captures scenes from the Irish border. www.ed.ac.uk/talbot-rice/events