Jérémy Pajeanc, a visual artist and professor, currently lives and studies between Porto and Marinha Grande. Born in Paris in 1988, he completed his initial education there. He teaches at the French International School of Porto, covering Fine Arts and Art History, and previously taught at the School of Education of Porto from 2013 to 2016 in the Visual Arts and Artistic Technologies program.
Having graduated in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, he specialized in Painting. Concurrently, he conducts research on the relationship between Art and Science in glass/Art and Social History, in collaboration with INED (ESE-IPP) and CENCAL (Marinha Grande). His artistic work focuses on migratory flows and the major exoduses that shaped our contemporary Western culture.
He regularly exhibits his work individually or collectively and has participated in various talks and conferences in both national and international cities. Jeremy is a member of the "Expedição" group and an associate of Saco Azul, a cultural association at Maus Hábitos in Porto. He has been honored with several national and international awards.
"Just as we wonder how many stones make a heap, (…) we wonder how many proofs constitute a crime."
In a current context divided between expansionist globalization and identity closure, walls and fences rise in the name of security. Security? Forgetting human rights, international agreements such as the right to political or war assistance, we disregard the moral and ethical values that define the humanity of our law and contemporary actions. The idea of a fence or a wall is as ancient as the concept of a border.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the European community believed it was moving towards a continued liberation of borders and their crossings, liberation of speech, the fraternal sharing of cultures and identities of a reunified Europe. We believed we would never return to a claustrophobic-dictatorial closure, considering that thought obsolete and petrified in a turbulent historical past. In 2017, Europe, among others, reinforces and redesigns parts of its borders with fences and barbed wire. Are we in the midst of the myth of Sisyphus?
“Tout le monde a tort à tour de rôle. Les uns d’avoir vu, les autres d’avoir fait.” Yann Moix
The title "Sans toi ni loi” was taken from a film by Agnès Varda
