Container Series
Mapping the Memory
Katarina Balunova
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About the work
Mapping the Memory by Katarina Balunova engages participants with recycled paper, using old maps as tools for memory, history, and imagination. By touching, writing on, commenting on, and transforming the maps, people bring personal and collective histories to life. Shredded fragments of maps are reassembled and woven into chains, symbolising how stories and memories can be broken, connected, and reimagined. Through this tactile, evolving collaboration, participants co-create living landscapes that link places, times, and experiences, exploring the connections between memory, place, and identity. The act of handling and reshaping the maps invites reflection on how histories can be shared, interpreted, and transformed, encouraging imaginative thinking and the collaborative creation of alternative worlds grounded in collective experience. This immersive engagement transforms old maps into spaces of memory, connection, and creative possibility.
