Project Description

The Mapping Journey Project is a mixed-media installation that combines eight
video works and a printed map. It proposes to draw an alternative map of the
Mediterranean area, spanning from Marseille to Ramallah, Ramallah to Bari, Bari
to Rome, Rome to Barcelona and Barcelona to Istanbul, based on eight clandestine
journeys. It challenges the normativity of cartography, to reveal underground and
hidden geographies. Inspired by philosopher Michel Foucault’s The Life of Infamous
Men, the artist collected an anthology of existences, of “singular lives…which have
become, through I know not what accidents, strange poems.”

Courtesy of the artist. Co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation

April 2011