Installationview Borgovico 33, 2006

Anticipated discoveries
Inkjet on map, prints, photography, glass, metal and wood,

Some of us enjoyed underlining borders in the schoolbook with a black pencil. We did not know that to
connect the drawing of maps with school time was a privilege position. Others on the other hand are forced to
read and relate to maps in highly different ways. Others are forced to read maps as narratives of exclusion
and fear. Others are forced to understand Maps as defining who you are and who you can become.
This works starting point was the work of a refugee smuggler/coyote, his work is to challenge the ways maps
and nations have been constructed and regulated and support people, specially the “unwanted”
“the sans papirs” to cross the borders.
It was important to reverse the very sceptical view that many people has on his work.
In today’s time the increasing racism in Europe and in conjunction with the closing of borders makes his
work even more needed. But it was also important to connect his work historically and conceptual, to other
historical geographer, and other narratives. Putting the viewer in a position of
negotiating – what is a document and what is not.