MARINA CAMARGO

“Shifting: displaced”

May 29 - August 29, 2021

Displacements through spaces reconfigure the maps.  Pathways outline the space in-between. Routes form invisible maps formed by flows, oceans, territories, borders.  

There is no route open for everyone to circulate. The same lines that draw the migration movements are the lines that trace the borderlines dividing countries and interrupting the flux. 

A fragmented map emerges: where the seas are zones of passage and approximation between continents, where borders are geometric abstractions that divide continuous spaces, where we perceive a city map being transformed despite the life that is spontaneously arranged in the sidewalks and streets of the neighborhood. 

Soft-map: fluxes (2021) is an installation made of three parts of cutout drawings. Each piece depicts the space between two continents: South America and Africa; Africa and North America; North America and South America. Although the continents are visible, it will be the straps connecting them that occupy the exhibition space. 

The drawings of the borderlines of each continent are reframed into a scorebook and then transformed into music. In Songlines (2019-2021), the political frontiers become abstract representations. A series of translations happen: the political borders transformed into drawings, the drawings translated into music. In this process, the borderlines are converted into something immaterial, essentially the opposite of the borders' nature.

Seattle city map is part of the video Projected city: Seattle, 2021. Another plan is configured through relocating small pieces depicting the squares as if a puzzle was being arranged. The area represented in the video points to a region that experiences displacement and gentrification in Seattle. 

The physical, geographical, urban displacements are part of a narrative of inhabited spaces, spaces traveled, provoking significant shifts in the perception of geopolitics, in the sense of belonging to a specific place, and in the possibility of building a homeland on the other side of the border.

"Shifting: displaced" touches these intermediate spaces, be it the distance of an ocean or the immateriality of political divisions. From a conceptual position, where there is no dominant territory but movements of diverse spaces and displacements, I start to think about the maps of the worlds we live in and the worlds that inhabit us. 

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Marina Camargo’s work investigates and questions established orders of the world. A notion of displacement defines a modus operandi to deal with cartographic, historical, and geographical references that are often the core of her projects, focus on concepts of space and place and its possibilities of representation. Her diverse practice takes shape in installations, drawings, sculptures, and video works. She holds a Diploma from Akademie der Bildenden KünsteMünchen (Germany),a Bachelor and a Master degree from Instituto de Artes / UFRGS, Porto Alegre (Brazil), and studied Visual Culture at Universitat de Barcelona (Spain).

O trabalho de Marina Camargo investiga e questiona ordens estabelecidas do mundo. Uma noção de deslocamento define um modus operandi para lidar com referências cartográficas, históricas e geográficas que estão frequentemente no cerne dos seus projetos, concentrando-se nos conceitos de espaço e lugar e nas suas possibilidades de representação. Sua prática diversa inclui trabalhos em instalações, desenhos, esculturas e vídeos. Estudou no Instituto de Artes / UFRGS – Porto Alegre, Brasil (onde concluiu bacharelado e mestrado em artes visuais), Cultura Visual na Universitat de Barcelona (Espanha) e posteriormente na Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Alemanha).