Izabela Pluta
Spatial misalignments from the Abstruse terms and general uncertainties series, 2018
gelatin silver photographs
40.6 x 61 cm (each diptych)
3 sets of 20 photographs
3 sets of 20 photographs
Further images
Spatial misalignments explores assumptions around how a place is depicted and perceived. The work includes 60 paper negatives made using a camera-less process of contact-printing relief maps from three different...
Spatial misalignments explores assumptions around how a place is depicted and perceived. The work includes 60 paper negatives made using a camera-less process of contact-printing relief maps from three different editions of an out-of-date atlas. What eventuates is a visual collapse of states, territories and geographical names that blurs the distinction between the landmasses, their coordinates and the political entities that govern them.
