Terra Incognita
multimedia installation ✦ 2022
The term terra incognita was first seen in Ptolemy's cartography in the period of ancient Egypt, and it was used in world maps to denote all unknown and unexplored areas. Oftentimes, additionally to terra incognita, the suggestive phrase hic svnt dragones would be written (in translation: "here are the dragons").
Through the juxtaposition of the organic and the mortal with the digital and the eternal, a peculiar collision of worlds occurs in which, physicality and virtuality, polar opposites, change their roles for the human subject. Ironically and paradoxically, the human's original physical form becomes something foreign - ie becomes a new terra incognita.
view of the installation at the 36. Youth Salon, Zagreb, Croatia, curated by KUĆĆA collective
photos by Juraj Vuglač
The analysis of material reality through the prism of the virtual dimension results in a completely new understanding of the space in which we find ourselves, and suggests the stratification of its interpretation. By studying the flow of energy through space, and abstracting architectural forms into simple linear elements, the work searches for the essence of spatiality.
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QR codes leading to the Google Street View intervention in the gallery space (Meštrović Pavilion)
360° interventions inserted in Google Street View
Curating: KUĆĆA, Zagreb, Croatia