Relational Cartography
Bruno Mesquita
2026
Edigma Semibreve Scholar
FBAUP
Universidade do Porto
Doutoramento em Artes Plásticas
Free admission
Installation
Date + Hour
22.10 Thursday—24.09 Thursday
09:30—18:30
Place
gnration
A generative system tracing the shifting relations between words, people, and territories. Each circle on the screen emerges from a collective attempt to articulate what a border signifies. Rather than reproducing geography, the work approaches cartography as a living gesture, a drawing of relations, tensions, proximities and distances. Built in the browser, it invites each visitor to add a word in response to that question. Through the accumulation of shared language, the piece becomes a mutable cartographic field: a space where meanings drift, connect, separate, and recombine, resisting fixed definitions.