another cartographies

For some time, I’ve been exploring cartography that maps and creates landscapes on a border of reality and imagination. I would like to call it uncertain, because it roams around a thin line of personal experiences and a physical world. It is an ongoing investigation, a dialogue between a body and a space. I’ve started to work with these synesthetic landscapes thanks to Merleau-Ponty’s concept of reversibility (Visible and Invisible) and Deleuze’s concept of actuality and reality (Film 2). Both based on uncertainty, which can be represented by a question: who (or where) am I and, who (or where) is the World. When thinking, remembering, feeling, perceiving, the answer is not clear. In terms of the quantum world – we either know where the particle is or what its momentum is. I’m creating these “maps” through interdisciplinary practice consisting of writing, video, painting and graphical design. It is always deeply connected to a space and movement: noticing colours, social discrepancies, landscape character, shapes of things and people. I’m taking pictures, making notes, thinking and expressing them.

This project explores Uncertain Cartographies, using digital excerpts from large prints for a Prague exhibition. Prints reference a specific Prague location, while paintings offer a more imaginative approach. The project examines two strategies for uncertainty – external and internal – through an ongoing exploration of occupied space.