Lines in the Earth:
Maps, Power and the Imagination

Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho

Curated by Courtney Gilbert
October 5 - December 7, 2007

Artists: Jane Hammond, Joyce Kozloff, Nick Lamia, Dan Mills, Matthew Picton, Lordy Rodriguez, Santiago Sierra

We tend to read maps as objective, truthful documents, but in fact, maps always represent the interests of those who make them. As geographers and cartographers have pointed out, no map can re-create the world and thousands of different maps could represent any single place.

The exhibition considers the many ways artists have used maps —which have traditionally defined our view of the world—as the basis for questioning the very order they impose.