Join me for another solo exhibition (yes, another one!) This time at the Library at the Dockat Docklands. Riding the success of last year’s Hyperglyphs, Hyperworlds will be even bigger and have even more tufted, textured treats to tantalize!
Hyperworlds: Unreal Cartography explores how maps can be symbolic and ideologic displays, not just practical navigational tools. The collection is partly inspired by medieval maps like the Mappa Mundi. In the Mappa Mundi, the church occupies the ideological center while the surrounding locations and depictions grow stranger toward the edges. Hyperworlds turns toward the map’s periphery - we venture away from the known lands and into the margins which teem with the strange and unknown. Living within a diaspora, we tend to make up the information we are missing and gaps in knowledge are filled with invention - like what our ancestral homelands looked and felt like. Hyperworlds means to turn the map’s uncharted edges into the center and chart those imagined spaces. It means to investigate the memory of a place you’ve never been to, and bring the periphery into focus.
