Map I and II

The Map I (Paris) is one of Marina Camargo’s first works in which cartography appears as the central element. It is also a work that shows a juxtaposition of the fundamental issues of Marina’s work at that moment: the meeting between the representation of space and written language, between map and text. The idea of translation emerges here as a strategy for transposing meanings between essentially different realities – the city is represented as a map; a map was drawn through letters that do not write a text but refer to the drawing of urban space. The gap between reality and its representation is the central concern in this work.

The work Mapa II (Porto Alegre) is part of the same series, which was concluded shortly afterward.

MAP I (Paris)
Drawing printed on paper 
50×70 cm 
2006

MAP II (Porto Alegre)
Drawing printed on paper
127×147 cm
2009