We are pleased to inaugurate our new, temporary space with a suite of new torn-map collage from Portland-based Francesca, who first exhibited with Wolfe Contemporary in 2005.
Berrini deconstructs and reconstitutes found maps using the process of collage. Drawn initially to what appear to be ordinary maps, and the reassuring sense of place maps provide, the viewer soon discovers that any effort of place recognition is futile. These places, comprised of torn, half-inch square map remnants are purely fictional. The richly textured quilt of landmasses, oceans, deserts, rivers, and cities exist solely in the artist’s imagination. Her maps explore the idea of alteration of the landscape. Her work reflects an interest in man’s transient effects upon nature: arbitrary borders, routes of travel, titles of places.
