tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house

Abstract

Salloum and Piña, both conceptual and media artists, are committed to visualizing how nature and the urban collapse into one another. In a creative reflection on translocality as it is rendered by photography, the authors allow their voices to intermingle. The resulting contribution is an assemblage that presents quotidian dystopian and utopian facets of the elements, nature, architecture, and human presence. The photo-essay escapes genres and shows the interstices of a consumer culture with its impact on the environment, and endangered local cultures are registered and grounded in images and words.