Tossin's series of drawings on Amazon delivery envelopes explores how mapping and naming serve as technologies for colonial visions of "discovery." In Corso del fiume delle Amazzoni fino a Marte, Tossin combines an early nautical chart of the Amazon River basin with a rendering of 15 Mars. Traditional navigational symbols, such as rhumb lines and scale bars, intersect with their contemporary counterparts: barcodes and QR codes. By collapsing time and space in the proposed journey from the Amazon basin to Mars, the work examines how current technologies continue to facilitate conquest.
Corso del fiume delle Amazzoni fino a Marte (Course of the Amazon River to Mars), 2023
archival ink on used Amazon.com delivery envelopes
23 1⁄2 x 20 1⁄2 in.