What if the territory is a sensitive archive?
Voluspa Jarpa
Voluspa Jarpa is a visual artist and researcher. In her projects she examines how knowledge is produced, organised and controlled. She works with installations, video, archival research and spatial scenography. Drawing on Latin American histories of colonialism and political intervention, Jarpa raises questions about the role of technology in shaping power, information and territory.
A key point of departure in her research is the archive. Government documents, diplomatic records and declassified files appear as material traces of political systems. In Jarpa’s work, archives become visible as technologies: infrastructures that determine what is seen, remembered or concealed. By reorganising these documents and presenting them spatially, she investigates how information systems operate as instruments of control.
Cartography also plays a central role. Maps are not treated simply as descriptions of space, but as infrastructures of power. They reveal how territory has historically been shaped by extraction, trade and geopolitical interests. At the same time, Jarpa explores how these systems can be reread through other forms of knowledge.
In this artist talk Jarpa reflects on her research into archives, cartography and geopolitical infrastructures. Her projects show how technological systems shape history and landscape—and how these systems can be reinterpreted through other ways of thinking and understanding.
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