Mapa Brut

Mapa Brut is a participatory piece in which the audience builds a map of Olot from clay – a cartography made together, with hands that get dirty in the making.

Participants shape the map with their hands, negotiating spaces, raising buildings, tracing streets, inscribing personal experiences, modelling characters, stories and geographical features. Clay can be undone, added to, destroyed and rebuilt – a collective gesture in which every hand redraws the map according to personal desires and memories.
As in previous cartographies (Mapa Líquid and Mapa Caníbal), the audience does not merely observe – it intervenes, devours, transforms, claiming ownership of the map as it takes shape. Mapa Brut invites us to think of the city as living matter: malleable, always contested, always unfinished.

Maria Camila Sanjinés is a contemporary Colombian artist based in Catalonia. Her work occupies an interdisciplinary space at the intersection of visual practice, cultural research and pedagogical action – a vehicle for exchange and dialogue. From ceramics to soundscapes, by way of embroideries that tell stories of migration, Sanjinés constructs sensitive cartographies that reveal connections between body, territory and memory. Her practice takes the form of cultural resistance, with each project becoming an invitation to rethink notions of identity, belonging and community. She has exhibited at Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani, Fundació Joan Brossa, Museu de la Garrotxa, Teatre Lliure, Sismògraf, ARTBO and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, among others.

Direction, Creation and Performance: Maria Camila Sanjinés / Technical Direction: Manel Quintana Caralt

www.salchichas.art/camila