Throughout the twentieth century and to this day, many have advocated for the visibility of these other forms of conveying the world. These include artistic creation. Some of the works question, subvert and redefine familiar cartographic representations; others produce new languages that make it possible to evoke some of the dimensions of the territory that for centuries have been absent from maps. Many of these pieces revolve around personal experience, evoking the central role of inhabiting both the world’s modeling and the construction of its narratives. These projects prove that experience enables one to articulate other spatial imaginaries and belongings that transcend and redraw some of the lines that maps have been laying down for centuries. 

Through the works brought together in this exhibition, Amina Agueznay, asmaa al-issa, Christine Gedeon and Filwa Nazer explore their bonds with a series of physical and symbolic places in diverse ways. Individual and collective stories, corporeal and interactive experience, but also distance, and with it memory or spatial imageries, become particularly relevant in their projects, arising as essential elements both in the relationship with places and in their definition and account. The somatic and relational quality of territorial experiences is echoed in the techniques and materials employed. And this is so because, assuming an artisan and textile nature, the artworks navigate place and its possible representations through snippets and embroidery, making it evident that the ever-changing relationships with the world might require, rather than a definitive and panoramic depiction, a narrative made from fragments and interwoven threads.