The Landscape Assembles as We Gaze

exhibition, book, projection, board game (2023-2024)
@Photography KABK

Mapmaking means creating narratives. Rather than depicting land itself, cartography renders visible the relationship between humans and the landscape. To investigate practices of mapping in their polyphony, Korporation Uri serves as a case study: a centuries-old commons in Central Switzerland that manages vast areas of alpine pastures, glaciers, and rocky fields. The Swiss Korporationen are historically grown organisations that own and take care of land and its resources collectively.

But not only the physical land of Korporation Uri is tied to a community.
By representing the landscape in a multitude of ways, people shape the identity and history of the place. Be it relief models, maps, herbaria or webcams – mapping in its diversity means interacting with the landscape and expressing one’s approach to it.