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Lines of Bolderāja // Lines of Daugavgrīva, Festivl Komēta, Daugavgriva Fortress, Riga, Latvia, 2019-2020
Inga Erdmane and Edd Schouten
Photographs, moving Image, sound
When looking at a map it is immediately clear that it is made up of lines. Lines that indicate
points between A and B; lines that cross each other; lines that create geometrical shapes next
to more lines and lines that indicate the beginning and the end of somewhere, everywhere.
Green indicates nature, blue indicates water, gray indicates roads and structures. And all
these lines on a map are drawn by human hands and generally indicate something of human
significance. But as fascinating as a map may be - full of information and even a source of
inspiration and dreams - it is unable to really describe what is happening among the people
who walk, drive or sail those lines. Lines on a map are important but the human stories that
take place on those lines remain obscured even now, when a little yellow man can be dropped
on GoogleMaps letting us explore.
