Why maps, map format?
Maps are measuring units of data of a very precise and unique moment, as it is a photograph or a left mark. Unknown Territories do not give any precise data. It has nor quantifying information neither trustable information. It talks about particular moments and events, the moment where the shape of my body was drawn and the text, which emerged from contemplating the forms and other association of ideas.  It is my way of responding to the preconceived idea that a map is a precise measuring codified system, so trustable, so permanent as becoming more trustable than the represented subject itself.

My interest in referring to an information system such as map-making comes from the idea of mapping my self through mapping my shadow, the unknown blackness of my body, as one way to acquire self knowledge.

The ephemeral characteristic of the shadow talks about momentary and unique moments. The shadow it is an ambiguous shape, we certainly do not know what is hidden behind it, what kind of object projects this shadow, the real positioning, size or appearance. An abstraction of the shadow as it is a contour drawing line gives even less information about the real object.  Playing with this ambiguity in a metaphoric and poetic way the work recreates a map, a body, and landscapes. The ambiguity is also reinforced by color, shape, positioning of the text in the image, meaning of the text within each image and the whole suite of images.

Documentation? I am not documenting myself, I am metaphorically taking my eyes through a big and unknown space that lives in my shadow, chaotic and indefinable space: my mind, feelings and thoughts.
 
 
 

This piece is composed by a series of silkscreen colour monotypes onto fabric, brought together in a wood box with glass cover. The colors relate to map-making, light blue for water, pale pink for land, contour lines in darker brown-pink. But also refer to skin/pink and space/blue. Also the fabric, interlining, has the texture of skin layers, being so transparent that only through mounting one onto another is possible to see the printed images.
The framing of the work in a box, which is meant to protect from the outside world, the book, as an archive box, also functions as a metaphor of the preservation of the memories and precious things. Box format has this strong relation with archiving, preserving, protecting and keeping untouched. The inner thoughts contained in the book are an important part of my own flesh the representation of this relationship has been made through the materials, the interlining, and the felt that covers the inside of the box. It is meant to be not only a comfortable place but also the association of the color, fleshy pink, reminds of flesh or the interior of the body, a delicate interior as the womb.

The text  written onto the images is System of Belief, the first version of this work that it became after a separate/continuation artwork and sound track.