The Map, Ana Maria Szöllösi

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

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

Like the map-drawing, the map-object 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