Maps Remember, 2022
Mixed media, including two-channel video.

The portraits in this work are taken from images of deceased loved ones that people around the world have unexpectedly found on Google Street View. They are precisely located within a network of coordinates: perhaps still watering plants in their own yard, sitting by the doorway waiting for their children to come home, or carrying out a routine morning run with a body that was still healthy and intact. Through these ordinary yet certain gestures, the deceased seem to remain on the roads most familiar to them, as if they had never truly left.
 

These images, carrying profound personal memories, were originally only data uniformly collected within a technological system. Yet precisely because Google Street View continuously gathers, locates, and updates images of the world on an almost global scale, these accidentally preserved figures acquire a force akin to testimony. “That-has-been” seems to be guaranteed once again: the deceased had been there, held decisively within the light of a certain day, a certain street, and the gaze of the machine.
 

And yet, time and death continue to seep into every image.