On the Fringes is a body of work including tapestries produced on a TC2 digital jacquard loom as well as digital prints. The project engages with themes of identity, migration, and the political history of the artist’s native region in Slovenia on the Austrian, Croatian, and Hungarian borders.

The project represents a bold and experimental reinterpretation of historical maps, photographs, and botanical illustrations. Using analogue and digital techniques, Sarkezi’s original designs have been converted into strikingly colourful woven structures and prints.

The overall motive of the work is to playfully challenge the arbitrary nature of politically determined borders and imaginatively reclaim a previously colonised space in the Central and Eastern European context.