- 2004
- ARTnews Top 200
- 23 carat gold on paper
- W 102cm x H 67cm
- This map is based on ARTnews magazine’s 2003 count of the world’s top 200 art collectors. Countries are represented according to their density of collectors as recorded by the New York based magazine. Countries that, according to the magazine, are not home to one of the top 200 collectors are erased from the map. The map is reversed, as if seen in a mirror.
- (Data source: The World's Top 200 Collectors. New York: ARTnews. Volume 102/Number 7. Summer 2003)
World Map Project
As a representative system, a map must be fictional by definition. The ongoing World Map Project focuses on this fictionality highlighting particular ideological biases. The series of maps reveals some of the epistemological, and, at times, material substructures that are intrinsic to geographical information.
Some of the World Map Project works employ a mathematically-exact scaling of the world’s countries, which is based on specific statistics. These maps are developed through a process that treats nation states as isolated entities; they statistically grow or shrink independently of their geographic neighbours. Consequently, ‘editorial’ decisions are required in order to determine the arrangement and relative proximity of individual countries and continents, often producing unusual geographical configurations.