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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 the Vaud police at Morges station in 2021. - Finally, Asymmetric Visions (2023) explores aerial surveillance devices and migration control in the central Mediterranean. By mobilizing methods from geography, spatial analysis and geostatistics, data analysis and 3D modeling, 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 migrant justice. Opening on 22 September at 18:30 with interventions by Jean-Paul Bronckart (Spitzer Fund), Claire-Akiko Brisset (Scientific Committee of the Mural), Charles Heller (Border Forensics), followed by a surprise performance and closed by a drinks reception. This audiovisual exhibition is held on the Mural Alexei Jaccard-Human Rights at Uni Mail. This device offers a place of memory, information and interdisciplinary reflection on human rights and enforced disappearance in the world based on the tragic fate of Alexei Jaccard, a Swiss-Chilean student victim of enforced disappearance in 1977.