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  1. Ana Mendes, Map Series (Germany), 2014, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable (photo eSeL)

    Ana Mendes, Map Series (Germany)2014, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable (photo eSeL)

    map wall

    Ana Mendes, Map Series (Russia), 2017, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Festival Regions, Austria © photo FDR

    Ana Mendes, Map Series (Russia)2017, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Festival Regions, Austria © photo FDR

    woman stitching maps

    Ana Mendes, Map Series (Germany), 2018, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Platform, Belfast, UK © photo Simon Mills

    Ana Mendes, Map Series (Germany), 2018, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Platform, Belfast, UK © photo Simon Mills

    map wall

    Ana Mendes, Map Series (Germany), 2018, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Platform, Belfast, UK © photo Simon Mills

    Ana Mendes, Map Series (Germany)2018, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Platform, Belfast, UK © photo Simon Mills

    detail map wall

    Ana Mendes, Map Series, 2018, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Platform, Belfast, UK © photo Simon Mills

    Ana Mendes, Map Series, 2018, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Platform, Belfast, UK © photo Simon Mills

    several maps wall

    • 1

      Ana Mendes, Map Series (Germany)2014, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable (photo eSeL)

      map wall

    • 2

      Ana Mendes, Map Series (Russia)2017, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Festival Regions, Austria © photo FDR

      woman stitching maps

    • 3

      Ana Mendes, Map Series (Germany), 2018, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Platform, Belfast, UK © photo Simon Mills

      map wall

    • 4

      Ana Mendes, Map Series (Germany)2018, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Platform, Belfast, UK © photo Simon Mills

      detail map wall

    • 5

      Ana Mendes, Map Series, 2018, performance/installation, mixed technique, dimensions variable, exhibition view Platform, Belfast, UK © photo Simon Mills

      several maps wall

    Ana Mendes, Map Series, 2014-18, performance/installation, maps, sewing machine, thread, exhibition view 'Frame it', Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna, Austria (c) photo: eSeL (photo 1) and at Platform Arts, Belfast, 2017 (c) photo Simon Mills (photos 2, 3 and 4 ) 

    Map Series is a performance in which Mendes considers her identity as a Portuguese citizen facing a post-colonial context. In this performance-installation, Mendes stitches old paper maps of the former colonies of certain empires – i. e., UK, Portugal, France, Germany, Russia - sitting on a chair at a table with a sewing machine.