The exhibition Displacement Maps articulates several different lines of action and many different means of expression which come together in the continuous research that Marco Pires has been carrying out into cartography, specifically about the concept of the map and its inter-disciplinary relationship with the constantly changing notions of representation that define the practising of contemporary visual art.
Marco Pires is interested in the analogy between cartographic representations and painting, as well as the identification of the error and of fiction, in the representation and interpretation of landscape as defined by Mark Monmonier in the book “How to lie with maps”, and which deals with the impossibility of achieving reality itself. It is from this reality that the process of artistic mediation in Marco Pires becomes feasible. (...)