EXHIBITION
11 OCT - 27 JAN 2013
CITÉ RADIEUSE LE CORBUSIER - BRIEY
Contours of the world
Part of the show The way of the worlds
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, (the world) justified, left-aligned, centered, right-aligned, 2004. © Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris et les artistes.
Drawing the contours of the world, tracing the borders has long been a major strategic issue and a means of exercise of power. And yet, maps fascinate despite their military and exploratory purpose.
Covering distant stretches of the ocean and more or less (un)real islands and territories, maps of the world are nevertheless generated by a uniform and very standardized vision.
Let us then set aside traditional atlases and turn towards a more poetic approach to the world. May these projects reappropriating cartography unsettle us and cover up the tracks! Let’s turn these lines into the tightrope on which the artist dances like a funambulist…
