Identidad líquida

2019
Pages of used books, ink.
240×130 cm

Taking as a reference the map developed by the Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa: the artist uses the real proportions of the continents to transmit a message contrary to the colonial idea imposed by the traditional world map and uses the model of the expansion of humanity to place Africa as the center of life. This work focuses on the idea that our identity ceases to be unique as it is shaped by the natural, social and economic landscape in which we live. An identity that is created through the movement of the individual, marked in large part by economic reasons arising from global inequality over the ownership and benefit of natural resources.
To make the work we have used sheets from Karl Marx’s The Capital (Cuban Publications, 1971)

Photo: Julieta Ansalas