Perspectives

Silvia Minguzzi, Perspectives

The piece Perspectives is a 10ft by 46 inches poster on migrant routes. Immigration from North Africa is constantly continuing to Europe, while the professionals young Europeans are flying somewhere else. The same phenomenon, emigration from one’s Country, affects two completely different Worlds that, even when they touch each other, don’t connect. We are accustomed to see a three dimensional world on a two dimensional map using the Mercator projection: in Perspectives I used the Peters projection, where areas are shown in correct proportion at the expense of distorted shape. I reflected the poster left to right, to show the subjectivity of the point of view and how a new perspective can make us see things in a different way.

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