argia.eus
INPRIMATU
Territory and architecture
Missing
Ula Iruretagoiena 2023ko otsailaren 01a

Where is the place you told me? "Google Maps." Geolocation and map mapping have become powerful devices in our society. They are effective in linking, buying, eating and moving. What's not on the map until you don't think it exists. But let us not forget that the map is not the reality itself, what appears and what disappear as a domain of an idea and, therefore, is capable of shaping and shaping reality.

The program “Seeing the invisibility” that has been carried out in January in Tabakalera de Donostia has presented works that lead to a map invisible, silenced or difficult situations and phenomena. In the exercise of data geolocation, the unconscious can become more visible or visible; when crossing geography and data and reflecting them on a map, there are elements to form a story. For example, you can count the risk of flooding or fire from a location. Mapping migratory movements or murder can be evidence of an event.

Missing Maps is a humanitarian work agent project. They carry out an action to bring to the maps the places/people that States have left out, in order to know how many and where they are and to allow assistance. They are maps with the intention of showing the invisible in the existing maps. So that place and those people, for a moment, have visibility on the map. In the case of the disappeared from Mexico, the maps are those that erase the emotions, calling the presence of those who are not and creating other narratives of the search action.

There will always be anyone left out of our map, who will remain secret, who will have provisional visibility, who will not be able to pursue it, because they escape us because they cannot be translated into maps, efforts. In addition, some may want to continue to disappear, far from the spectacularity of the map, as a kind of existence of survival or lack of knowledge.