Screening of Digital Detention documentary (2026) at Georgetown Law, Washington D.C., organized by the Center for Privacy and Law, with professor Denise Gilman (University of Texas at Austin).

Community Meetings and Screenings in Austin, Texas 2019-2024

2019-2024 Jessie and Carolina during one of many presentations of the Digital Detention Project at Casa Marianella, a shelter for asylum seekers in Austin, Texas, followed by discussions with staff, volunteers and residents from Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador, Ghana, Nicaragua, Angola, El Salvador, Eritrea, Congo, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Venezuela, …

Carolina also presented the Digital Detention Project in collaboration with Cinéma 93 at three prisons Villepinte, Versailles and Bois d’Arcy, located in the suburbs of Paris in the Fall 2021, followed by exchanges with incarcerated persons on experiences of confinement and displacement. Cinéma 93 supports and promotes documentaries and fiction and created a workshop in the three prisons with documentary filmmaker Frédéric Mainçon and film editor Carolyn Laplanche. En 2021, c’est le cinéaste documentariste Frédéric Mainçon qui est intervenu à Villepinte pour proposer un atelier de création suite à la projection de son film Pour votre confort et votre sécurité. Après avoir tourné les images, les participants ont ensuite monté deux courts films avec la mappeuse et monteuse Carolyn Laplanche avec l’outil Mashup Box : L’an fermement, L’enfer me ment, L’enfermement, L’enfer. Tous les films ont été projetés dans les trois établissements en présence du réalisateur, suivis de l’intervention de la sociologue Carolina Sanchez Boe, qui a proposé un prolongement réflexif autour de son travail. Read more here: https://www.cinemas93.org/page/diffusion-aide-au-film-court

Digital Borders Exhibit

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Galerie Colbert, Paris, October 2021 – Video and Photo Installation

Digital Borders Exhibit

Vandrehallen, Aarhus University, September 2021 – Video and Photo

Digital Borders exhibited alongside Hostile Terrain 94 (Undocumented Migration Project – Jason de Léon and Austin Shipman), A Tale of Two Islands (Steffen Köhn) A Foot in the Door (Cecil Schou Pallesen)

Horizons of Confinement

Goldsmith College, University of London, UK March 2020

Cartographies of Fear #1 and #2, 2015-2016

The Old Police Station, London (2015) & Espace Architecture Flagey, Brussels (2016)

Carolina Sanchez Boe & Anne Zeitz
Cartographies of Fear #1
Installation, 2015

The exhibition at The Old Police Station included the first work of the series, Cartographies of Fear #1, a visual investigation of the ways in which undocumented migrants perceive and embody their urban environment. Their lack of documents makes them vulnerable to police control, arrest, detention and finally deportation – an event, which, in the best of cases is profoundly life altering, and in the worst of cases could mean death. Their fear of arrest and their vulnerability is intensified in specific spaces, and it creates an alternative urban and suburban grid that is invisible to other city dwellers. The project uses cartographies to identify, localize, and visualize the (in)visible and omnipresent borders that create zones of fear, which are ever-present in undocumented migrants’ daily experience of the city.

Carolina Sanchez Boe & Anne Zeitz
Cartographies of Fear #2
Installation, 2016

Migrants’ access to new technologies plays an important role in their border crossings and their trajectories. Cartographies of fear #2 presents the experience of a Syrian man in Paris. The videos show visible and invisible places and borders within which he has lived happy moments with his wife, as well as the places that he discovered as an asylum seeker and where he feels vulnerable.

Coder et décoder les frontières, Bruxelles, 2016. Exposition collective du 13 avril au 31 mai 2016. Espace Architecture Flagey-ULB, Bruxelles. Coding and Decoding Borders, Bruxelles 2016 Group show April 13th – May 31, 2016 Espace Architecture Flagey-ULB, Brussels Artistic curators: Isabelle Arvers and Nathalie Lévy Scientific curators: Andrea Rea and Cédric Parizot