Mapping Water: Between paper, memory and the archive

Mapping Water critically examines the connection between the ocean, memory and imperialism. In the film, we see the artist developing maps of cities she is recounting. As watercolour floods the paper and dries, the map makes itself; extending the notion of mapping as a palimpsest that disrupts traditional methods of cartography, imperial mapping and with it, chronologies of time and space. This filmic work opens up a critical dialogue, centering questions of how geographies are made in and through experience. Nuanced observations of specific locales capture how the passage of time changes both the place and the artist herself. A sense of a map emerges through the piece, enacting a complex field of situated knowledge from specific geographies, texts and memories.