Simulacrum (or Mapping) responds to a brilliantly absurd and obviously impossible concept presented in the stories by Jorge Borges & Lewis Carroll that to be true to reality a map would necessarily be 1:1…

Two pamphlets with these texts accompany a set of maps displaying the ever-changing borders of historical & present-day Ukraine. They have been filigree cut and embedded into ripped translucent papers, reminding us of the war-torn reality there. They also show that cartography is a field that produces diagrams that can only reference the physical world, and thus, mapping is always subjective.