FOR A REPRESENTATION OF UTOPIA
[2017]
POSTERS
"For a Representation of Utopia" is a complementary work to Mapping Utopia. Like Mapping Utopia, this work is a critical examination of the utopian imaginary as a vehicle for conflict. The work consists of a series of posters created from edited images depicting incidents of political violence from around the world.
Each poster includes the image of the event, the year, its geographical coordinates, and the word "utopia", with no additional elements.
The poster, as a historical propaganda medium, is used in the work in order to bring together images from diverse historical and geographical contexts and form a heterogeneous set of ideological actors unified by the common thread of violence.
Brief captions accompany the posters providing basic information about the incidents, placing the image in its historical context.
“For a Representation of Utopia” has been presented in the exhibition “
De
regreso a la isla” at
Fundació Palma Espai d’Art,
Mallorca, Spain. Curated by Helena Lugo and Maria Royuela.
