No News Agency examines the boundaries between facts and interpretations, conventional media narratives and personal history. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the work subversively presents the concept of a global news agency. Yes. Institutions always claim objectivity and universality. It seems that far too often we receive information filtered through political and economic power.
Through video art, installation, ready-made, and performance, Adriana Trujillo connects two border spaces: Tijuana and San Diego (Mexico–USA) and Banja Luka in the Republika Srpska (BiH–EU), illuminating the personal and collective dimensions of migration, identity, and geopolitical tensions. Exploring emotional and physical borders, *No News Agency* sheds light on parallel realities of southern European borders, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the southern US border in Tijuana. Adriana Trujillo applies an autoethnographic approach to deconstruct the mechanisms through which the media constructs representations of the “Other.” This approach makes visible the ways in which global narratives shape our understanding of marginalized identities—whether refugees, migrants, or inhabitants of post-conflict regions. Through this analysis, Trujillo shows how media representations become powerful instruments in the production of political and social distance, often shaping perceptions that serve to legitimize hegemonic structures of power.
The decolonial approach adopted by *No News Agency* focuses on understanding and dismantling entrenched stereotypes and deconstructing dominant narratives, opening space for alternative perspectives. By merging geopolitics and emotion, and questioning the boundaries between social critique and personal poetics, it highlights the interaction between macrostructures of power and microrealities of the individual. *No News Agency* encourages us to confront our own unconscious participation in the creation of borders, reminding us that we may, above all, be confined within the frameworks of our own illusions of a free world.
Isidora Branković on the exhibition
