Atlas Fractured 2017 documentation show at documenta14

Atlas Fractured, which was presented in documenta14, is a reflection on the history of cultural identities through the representation of faces. Images of busts, masks and artworks are projected onto real people to suggest other narratives. The idea is to question the centrality of European cultural models and the validity of divisions based on Continents. No longer can we equate physiognomy with geography because through mobility the world has become more intertwined. Cultural identities a not fixed and defined. They are created and moulded through political projections, erected and destroyed by historical events and fluctuate with the displacement of cultural objects and the migration of populations...all these seem to point to the impossibility of fixing identities in time, as their nature is in constant flux. We can only define the now, and the now is grotesque, uncertain, and burdened by the ghosts of the past. There is however also beauty in the present, a vitality for new justices, a search for new harmonies and, contrary to facile political tendencies, an acceptance and desire for hybrid states hitherto unknown.