Oil paint – intervention on paper ; maps and pages from old magazines and newspapers.
A series of maps and found pages of old magazines are intervened with black oil paint, creating a new subjective cartography. Driven from the idea that oil can ‘acts as a global lubrificant’ for social relations as well as the idea of it being a ‘sentient being’ (idea driven from Reza Negarastani’s Ciclonopaedia book), these new maps show not a precise cartography of oil drilling and consumption, but instead, they act as visual statements where the ‘black matter’ that normally is invisible in our daily life, gains a striking visual presence, as a ‘thing’ that is as big as countries and present everywhere.
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- Dark Matter, 2013. 73 x 117 cm (map), 35 x 52 cm (magazine pages).
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- Opening Paths to Progress, 2013. 91 x 121 cm (map), 35 x 26 cm (each magazine page).
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- Black Holm: to refine and distribute, 2014. 260 x 125,5 cm (mapa), 35 x 26 cm (each magazine page).
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- Peace in the Jungle, 2014. 87,5 x 113 cm (map), 35 x 26 cm (each magazine page).
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- Transcontinental matter, 2015. 100 x 130 cm (map) , 35 x 45 cm (magazine page).
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- Storm in the Caribbean, 2014. 90 x 121cm (map), 35 x 52 cm (magazine pages).
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- This habit to believe in… (the Game of Goals), 2014. 21,5 x 50 cm
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- Peace and security (Black Reconcavo), 2014. 43 x 50 cm