Nina Katchadourian, “Australia” from Moss Maps series, 1992 (2016 reprint). C-print. 20 × 28 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery
Nina Katchadourian, “Taiwan” from Moss Maps series, 1992 (2016 reprint). C-print. 20 × 28 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery
Nina Katchadourian grew up spending summers in the Finnish archipelago on a small island, particularly on a large granite hill covered with a type of lichen that is very common there. The artist saw a resemblance between these patches of lichen and specific islands or continents. Then she began to affx rub-on letters directly to the pieces of lichen to identify them as the places, making the whole hill had a scrambled atlas. In the last stage, she photographed them and produced the Moss Maps series comprised of 20 photo works. The scenes of the moss covering the hills have now been transferred to the exhibition walls, leading us to a new aesthetic map of her world.
