SWAY, UK.- ArtSway will present BorderLine: Rik Pinkcombe, on view 14 April - 20 May 2007. Rik Pinkcombe's photographs engage with the concept that contemporary existance in the developed world is saturated by a de-personalised, profit-driven consumer industry that affects personal identity and distorts our view of the world around us. Pinkcombe's mixed-race background influences his work, leading him to visually question different perceptions of identity, and how an individual perceives and is perceived. Pinkcombe considers what it is to be mixed-race - quite literally coming from both sides of a metaphysical 'border' - and the consequences of being perceived or judged as not being from one side or the other.

This exhibition of new work, commissioned by ArtSway and Autograph ABP, investigates the border between the US and Mexico. This work both develops and complements Pinkcombe's previous work exploring the border between the US and Canada (images of which are included in the exhibition), made whilst in residency at Light Work in Syracuse, New York in 2005.