Unmapping the World challenges the modern map as a fixed organizing principle. Tossin drew Earth’s continents on balled-up sheets of tracing paper, re-flattening them to reveal a fragmented world map. This decolonial act of “unmapping” constructs a global perspective favoring multiple histories, perspectives, and forms of knowledge

Unmapping the World, 2011

ink on tracing paper
four drawings, 33 x 46 in. each; one balled-up drawing, 6 x 7 x 6 in. (approx.)




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