ELAINE GAN

THE COSMOPOLITANS
(Allegories of Capital), 2009

Over 600 photographs are sourced from the internet then remixed into an oversized print (56 in. x 71 in.) The resulting montage considers a form of cognitive mapping, a representation of what becomes visible when variously sourced images and logics are reoriented and layered into strata. This attempts to look at a world vertically (vs. maps that portray surface topographies): from seemingly borderless satellite and air space to bounded cities and cultural sites, resource extraction industries, and slums.

Installed at Toronto Free Gallery, Ontario

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