For millennia, maps have been essential tools for understanding and navigating the world. While they often depict physical terrain, maps also have the capacity to chart any space, whether real or imagined, tangible or abstract. From the earth’s surface to its depths, and across conceptual or multidimensional systems, maps help us define boundaries, reveal relationships, and envision possibilities. Through their creation and use, they transform space into place, shaping political, cultural, and social understandings of the world around us. 

This exhibition brings together artists who reinterpret and expand mapping practices to explore questions of place, identity, and power. Through diverse media and distinct approaches, these artists use the language of cartography to uncover personal histories, unearth collective narratives, and address pressing social and environmental concerns. Some interrogate the colonial legacies embedded in traditional maps, questioning who has the authority to define space. Others draw on scientific data to visualize the far-reaching impacts of climate change and natural disasters. 

Collectively, their works invite viewers to reconsider what it means to map, to locate, and to belong. By transforming the conventions of cartography, these artists reveal how maps can serve not only as instruments of orientation, but also as tools for critical reflection and imagination—encouraging us to see, and think about, the world anew.