swisstopo

swisstopo — The idea of a 1:1 map, a supreme scientific achievement, though useless and even threatening in everyday life, is ­indebted to J. L. Borges’ story On Exactitude in Science. I started with the two poles that 
he describes: a homogeneous layer that once supposedly covered everything and a vital force that makes room for itself again with the help of time and the influence of the climate. In my project, a layer of asphalt stands for the map. One can tell that it must once have ­covered the entire courtyard. Now box trees are growing there. The asphalt is broken 
and will continue to crumble. The two “levels of ­reality” merge and are perceived as one single environment.