"Map of Africa OCC" is a vitreous sculpture. The superimposition of maps of the countries of West Africa attached to a succession of glasses formalises a single abstract volume that floats inside the glass block on a pedestal. The movement of the spectator produces the appearance and disappearance of the whole. This estrangement alludes to the lack of knowledge of the region from our European perspective and emphasises the arbitrary nature of a geometry of frontiers resulting from colonial processes. The formal disorder of the proposal produces a recomposition in order to promote knowledge from aesthetic curiosity and thus take measure of the distances and proximities of the global map and its uncertainties.
"Map of Africa OCC" is a vitreous sculpture. The superimposition of maps of the countries of West Africa attached to a succession of glasses formalises a single abstract volume that floats inside the glass block on a pedestal. The movement of the spectator produces the appearance and disappearance of the whole. This estrangement alludes to the lack of knowledge of the region from our European perspective and emphasises the arbitrary nature of a geometry of frontiers resulting from colonial processes. The formal disorder of the proposal produces a recomposition in order to promote knowledge from aesthetic curiosity and thus take measure of the distances and proximities of the global map and its uncertainties.