Maps have always represented, translated and codified all kinds of territories: physical, mental and emotional.

If we are able to recognize the limits of modern cartography, with its utopian accuracy and all its science, if we accept the fact that the perfect map has already been drawn, built, abandoned and turned into compost of those cities or spaces it aspired to represent, then we can glimpse a new territory for maps: one that emerges in the realm of fiction and the fragmentary, of the poetic and the conceptual, of the personal and the psychological.

Inaugurated this Thursday, August 21 at the gallery El Apartamento, NOWHERE is the most recent project by artist Yornel J. Martínez Elías in which he brings together a group of works or "poetic and conceptual cartographies" that for years have been one of the main obsessions in his work.

 The exhibition proposes a journey, a drift through space. Following a conceptual logic, the artist draws a map -arbitrary, subjective and incomplete, like all maps- that invites us to question ourselves about the systems of representation we use and the underlying notions. A series of cartographies created in different media, installations, drawings, artbooks, videos, that function as a possibility to imagine a different metaphorical repertoire, an attempt to subvert the cartographic language.