Nowhere Land
Panoramic Map
Nowhere Land, offset print in map folding technique, 54 x 85 cm, 2017
The panoramic map was produced for the exhibition Constructing Paradise at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. It was distributed exclusively there among the exhibition visitors.
Out of print.
The two drawings entitled nowhere land were shown in the exhibition Constructing Paradise at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. At the same time, these drawings have been printed in a smaller format than the original size and were produced as maps, folded in the form of a panoramic map for tourists. These maps were distributed exclusively among the exhibition visitors in New York. A nautical chart lead the readers to an island, where art historic images of the Brazilian Tupi people were combined with stills from 1980s Italian cannibal movies.
It was the poet Oswald de Andrade, who declared in 1928 in his famous Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibal Manifest) a strategy of getting rid of the colonizer's culture in Brazil through an exotic practice that was long attributed to the indigenous people.
Read more details about the exhibition and the drawings nowhere land in the section about Work on this website.
