The Map | Ana Maria Szöllösi

The Map project is an exploration of the confrontation between real geography and subjective geography, a way of questioning how we relate to purely conventional representations.

Using a personal object as a starting point, Ana Maria Szöllösi redefines geography in terms of her own experiences. A political world map printed in 1981 and received from her mother is redrawn by the artist from memory using conventions that no longer refer to scale reduction, coherent units of measure, latitudes and longitudes, but to feelings, social interactions, mental projections. Mapping is a process guided by memory and introspection.

Like the drawn map, the original map also presents a geographical situation that does not correspond to reality. Political changes have reconfigured significant territories, set new frontiers, deleted old borders. The map-object is annulled by macro-history, and the map-drawing is structured by micro-histories.

Curator: Maria Orosan-Telea