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Open in the appThrough excerpts from three films, the exhibition presents three investigations conducted by Border Forensics: - The death of Blessing Matthew (2022) revisits the death of this young Nigerian woman, who died in 2018 while attempting to cross the Franco-Italian border in the… Through excerpts from three films, the exhibition presents three investigations conducted by Border Forensics: - The death of Blessing Matthew (2022) revisits the death of this young Nigerian woman, who died in 2018 while attempting to cross the Franco-Italian border in the Alps. - The Death of Roger Nzoy Wilhelm (2025) examines the circumstances of Nzoy's death, killed by Vaud police at Morges station in 2021. - Finally, Asymmetric Visions (2023) explores aerial surveillance systems and migration control in central Mediterranean. By mobilising methods from geography, spatial and geostatistical analysis, data analysis and 3D modelling, Border Forensics' counter-investigations make it possible to reconstruct contested events and document violence that is often difficult to establish. Border Forensics thus explores the potential of images and data to document violence at borders, question established narratives and contribute to struggles for human rights and migration justice. Opening on 22 September at 18:30 with speeches from Jean-Paul Bronckart (Spitzer Foundation), Claire-Akiko Brisset (Mural Scientific Committee), Charles Heller (Border Forensics), followed by a surprise performance and concluded with a reception. This audiovisual exhibition is held on the Mural Alexei Jaccard-Human Rights at Uni Mail. This facility offers a place of memory, information and interdisciplinary reflection on human rights and forced disappearance in the world, based on the tragic fate of Alexei Jaccard, a Swiss-Chilean student who was a victim of forced disappearance in 1977.