2016, Prints on acrylic and polyester, metal - Dimensions of the central sculpture­: 3,30 x 2,20 m

Installation views:
"The National Or The Skip at Averard hotel", London, curated by Alex Meurice and Matt Mottahedan, 2016
"Exploded Views" at A Juan Project, Amsterdam, organised by Gabriel Rolt and Andrea Bergh, 2016

Photos courtesy of Olivia Malena Vidal

A Zoomed out view of a peninsula, a planar expanse of land. A moment of suction occurs before the aerial view turns into street-view. It is the representational threshold between two illusions of perspective. A land for a slab. A map for something more concrete. A moment of liminality in between views. The exploded views are conjoined in space, into an object that owes its form and shape to the assemblage of images. Baudrillard, built the concept of "hyperreality" upon Borges' “On Exactitude in Science”, in which a great Empire created a map so detailed that it was as large as the Empire itself. When the empire declines, the map fades into the landscape. «Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map.». So is an omnipresent google-earth a symptom of the same psychosis.
In re-asserting the sculptural properties of cartography, the Naïmé Perrette draws on the complexities of zones in constant change and their representations. 

Extract of a text by Vorthuys Daniel