Mikhael SubotzkySticky-tape Transfer 20 - R. Wye (or The British Isles - political) (0982), 2017
Pigment inks, correction tape and J-Lar tape on cotton paper
Work: 268 x 214 cm (105.5 x 84.3 in.)
The act of drawing a map is the ultimate form of asserting ownership of land. The Sticky-Tape Transfer maps I have made are all futile attempts to defamiliarise our representations of the land. My film installation WYE (2016) brought together three narratives where the protagonist’s gazes at the landscapes of England, South Africa and Australia; each of these landscapes is loaded with the weight of the colonial project and white subjectivity. I made a Sticky-Tape Transfer map of each of these three territories, turned upside down and with all their names erased, in a futile attempt to look at them without the knowledge of the projects of ownership.
