Starting next Friday, Casa Árabe presents the exhibition A World of Scraps, curated by María Gómez López and with the collaboration of Hafez Gallery, with works by the artists Amina Agueznay, asmaa al-issa, Christine Gedeon and Filwa Nazer.
Since time immemorial, human beings have needed to learn about and document the places they have passed through, constructing accounts of the world that enable them to find their way around it, while at the same time understanding the phenomena that shape their environment. The map, spatial representation par excellence, is among them. However, in its most canonical version, it has codified a very specific vision of the world, functioning as a tool for control and knowledge, but also for anticipation and spatial definition in different territories. And so, for centuries and in many places, the lines of the map have determined relations with the land, configuring static identities delimited by artificial borders. However, although we sometimes forget it, the map is not the territory; it is only one of the many ways of evoking it and making it intelligible. Through the works in this exhibition, the artists variously explore their links to a range of physical and symbolic places. Individual and collective histories, embodied and interactive experience, but also distance, and with it memory or spatial imaginaries, are revealed in their projects as essential factors both in the relationship with places and in their definition and narration.
