The intimate geographies of Anna Maria Maiolino. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sutherland, Camilla
• Is Part Of: World art. Volume 12:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 25
• Page End: 48
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Anna Maria Maiolino -- Brazilian art -- identity -- spatiality -- mapping; Art -- Periodicals; Art, Comparative -- Periodicals; Art; Art, Comparative; Periodicals; 700.5
• DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2021.2019103
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2150-0894

Abstract

Abstract : This article examines the intersection of identity and spatiality in the works of Brazilian visual artist Anna Maria Maiolino. It situates her within a broader discussion of artistic cartographies in Latin America and beyond, and charts Maiolino's recurrent engagement with the map as a symbol and mapping as a process. Analysing the artist's explorations of spatiality in political, psychological, and corporeal terms, this article proposes that Maiolino's work articulates an experience of nomadic subjectivity and a destabilisation of ideas of national and continental belonging.