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Artwork description
Cartographies are ways of scaling the beyond. These representations blueprint our terrain, determining our perception of space and the relationships of place between us. They all point to the same planet that shapes our gravity and universal form.

With the advent of digital cartographic media and its increasingly easy accessibility, the demand for globes is likely to continue to decline, at least in terms of their use as a reference tool. Cartography is fading away as computerized GPS systems technology advances. The hand loses its efficacy and, along with the territory itself, becomes an even more unstable entity.

By erasing the topographic and political markers of the world's nations, Woodgate reveals a kind of social, political, and economic implosion that is already underway. It prefigures our stories and portends the uncertainties of our constructed terrains.

This is not just about landscapes but about cartographies of the human consciousness. These maps, simultaneously sterile and full of promise, are proposals for the future. They offer micro-cosmic views of worlds too vast for us to see

Bio
Agustina Woodgate was born in Buenos Aires, 1981. Her artistic practice is focused on the study of systems, the theories of value, power relations and logics operating in society. She traces new mappings dissolving the political limits that organize paradigms, unifies languages by visiting displaced communities, materializes and evidences reigning power relations and denounces forms of domination through her works. She sands maps and bills, draws hopscotch boards, gives a voice to the silenced and work to the unemployed, creates pieces from the discarded and deconstructs major paradigms; her pieces work on the ways institutional poetics and politics organize public and private space, starting from their infrastructure and domination discourse. Utilizing a playful, polysemic, minimalist and blunt language, through sculptures, public interventions and social interactions Woodgate introduces new landscapes that address the audience and resignify the system of existing relationships. In order to do so, she transforms and reinserts the remainders of society in works of art that pave the way for new possibilities of perception and action.

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