Satellites and google cars have continuously and ever more accurately mapped the Earth. They transformed our planet in a literal Iconosphere, a virtual globe, a sphere covered in digital images.
In these virtual metropolises we are able to see buildings with an ever higher level of detail but there are som places that are poorly mapped and photographed because they are useless, uninhabitated or without any strategic relevance.
In these virtual metropolises we are able to see buildings with an ever higher level of detail but there are som places that are poorly mapped and photographed because they are useless, uninhabitated or without any strategic relevance.
What about these covertly censored places?
Cartography is an expression of power: what will happen if we change its center?
What will happen if we were able to change for a while our point of view on the “rest of the world”?
And if we were looking for those places that are as useless, isolated as they are poetic?
Cartography is an expression of power: what will happen if we change its center?
What will happen if we were able to change for a while our point of view on the “rest of the world”?
And if we were looking for those places that are as useless, isolated as they are poetic?
Islands: heaven and hell at the same time, known and unknown places where everything is knowable and at the same time it remains confined and unreachable.
“Here You Are” presents a series of remote islands, some more roughly mapped than others, arranged around a central point that changes according to the place where the work is installed. Here you are, we found you. We can see 6 portions of these islands but still we cannot understand them in their totality.
This project proposes to the observer not to be just a spectator but to begin a journey rediscovering the space around him, moving his center, and looking at the world from another angle.
