~ Identification

Epoxy, aluminium structure, decibel meter.
110x90x70cm. | 2024


This work reflects on the concept of landscape as a social construction how, by identifying with a specific place, we become part of it and activate it as a landscape.

Identification presents a place disconnected from any precise location. This landscape is empty and impersonal. It becomes active only through a decibel meter, which detects the intensity of human voices in the room. The presence and volume of people speaking around the work reveal how human activity reanimates the landscape, turning a “ghost terrain” into a lived and perceived space.

In The Agency of Mapping (1999), James Corner distinguishes between the map as a fixed representation and the map as a creative process. For him, maps are not neutral tools but active models for constructing reality. This work takes up that idea, treating the map not as something static, but as something brought to life only through interaction and human presence.

Urban theorist Kevin Lynch once stated, “Without orientation, man feels lost. But identification with the environment is even more important.”

Identification questions precisely this: what happens when the map is no longer readable, when the landscape has no reference points, no symbols, no colors? What remains of the landscape when the only way to bring it into being is through human perception?