Colonial Memory and the EU in Africa (2017)

One of two maps I created to supplement Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias-Casas work in the It is Obvious from the Map exhibit at REDCAT gallery in Los Angeles, 2017.

From the description of the exhibit by co-curators Thomas Keenan and Sohrab Mohebbi:

It is obvious from the map examines the role of maps and map-making in the movements of large numbers of people from the conflict zones of the Middle East and Africa toward Europe. The exhibition takes its title from a detailed annotation on a fragment of a map depicting the border between Hungary and Serbia, a map made by migrants and exchanged among them on social media, a map that instantiates and attempts to realize a basic right to migration. But maps are not only the insignia of agency and the pursuit of new life. This show gathers three different moments of map-making from the current migration routes leading across or around the Mediterranean in order to chart the complex politics of migratory representations.