Who Gets to Map Latin America’s Natural World?
A Peruvian artist’s ghostly landscapes raise questions about objectivity and authority in documenting the region’s environment.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Lula and Latin America In Elena Damiani’s Fading Field N.10, the jagged rocks of a cliffside rise through a foreground filled with clouds. Where is this image drawn from Look at it quickly and you might mistake it for a real mountainside. But in fact, the work splices together six pictures of different mountains across the U.S. and Latin America—from Mount St. Helens and Yosemite National Park in the U.S., to the El Sangay and El Cotopaxi volcanos in Ecuador. Together, they create a kind of nonplace, a fictional landscape assembled...
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