Read a poem like a photograph. Read a photograph like a map. Read a map like a poem.

This project proposes an alternative way of representing the territories we inhabit—moving away from normative maps and rigid structures. Through a collection of maps drawn by local people, photographs, visual essays, and a textile installation, it constructs a fragmented archive that reinterprets territory through experience, memory, and the relationship between bodies and landscape.

Rather than building a “fictional map,” the project questions the notion that any mapping could be neutral, objective, or unquestionable. Here, sensitivity and subjectivity are reclaimed as valid forms of geographical knowledge. What is lived—even if it doesn’t show up on GPS—also draws paths and builds meaning.

The installation features an inverted embroidered map of Euboea on translucent fabric, suspended in front of a reflective surface. The viewer sees themselves in the background—distorted—becoming part of the landscape. Territory and body affect one another: to inhabit is also to be transformed.

The fanzine at the core of the project is designed without a fixed beginning or linear order: it can be read from any page, randomly or non-sequentially. This structure mirrors the fluidity of territory and the identities that inhabit it—ever shifting, always situated.

"Our Territories Do Not Fit Into the GPS" invites us to imagine new maps and ways of knowing—more open, more affective, more collective.

This project was developed during the Loop [PROSPER] art residency in October 2024.