Terra
Incognita
Woodcuts printed with eggshell powder and ink on paper.
50 x 50 cm19.6 x 19.6 in
2022
"Terra incognita" was used in ancient maps to indicate the limit of geographical knowledge. It makes me think of distant and immeasurable regions, unlikely places and theoretical spaces. It leads me to imagine the difficulty of making a map of an unknown territory in a historical moment in which discoveries were made through long expeditions. At that time, cartographers not only reproduced the world but also built it. The use of the term "Terra incognita" disappeared from the maps during the 19th century, as the planet earth ceased to be a strange place for humans.
What is our "Terra Incognita" today? What are those mysterious and unknown places? Under this concern, I focus my artistic practice as a cartography exercise of a territory that I will never be able to recognize through my body: the universe. I seek to create images and metaphors that relate our place on earth and how we perceive and interpret what we see far away in the sky.