Lena Poturemets
(be)longing
Interactive installation (3D printing, electronics)
2025
The project includes three interactive tactile maps, which are also 3D data sculptures. The maps are based on data automatically collected by Google on the locations and quantity of photos taken by the artist when living in different cities. Each map represents one city, each formalizing the subjective experience of living in them.
By touching the maps, viewers gradually gain access to a personal archive, discovering the artist’s personal sense of home. By following a path to get a sense of this feeling and tracing your location on the map using your hands, as Inuits once did in northern Greenland, visitors are invited to reflect on what home means to modern humans and how cartography shapes our conceptions of space, time, and information.
Inuit maps were traditionally made of wood, bone, or leather and were designed to be experienced by touch: ridges and notches marked coastlines, islands, currents, and travel routes. These tactile tools provided information through touch, making navigation possible even when visibility was poor.
Juxtaposing personal experience and global cultural concepts, (be)longing is an attempt to find a connection between identity and place in today’s world.
Special thanks to Symphocat and Ruslan Bobko for their support in creating the project
(be)longing
Interactive installation (3D printing, electronics)
2025
The project includes three interactive tactile maps, which are also 3D data sculptures. The maps are based on data automatically collected by Google on the locations and quantity of photos taken by the artist when living in different cities. Each map represents one city, each formalizing the subjective experience of living in them.
By touching the maps, viewers gradually gain access to a personal archive, discovering the artist’s personal sense of home. By following a path to get a sense of this feeling and tracing your location on the map using your hands, as Inuits once did in northern Greenland, visitors are invited to reflect on what home means to modern humans and how cartography shapes our conceptions of space, time, and information.
Inuit maps were traditionally made of wood, bone, or leather and were designed to be experienced by touch: ridges and notches marked coastlines, islands, currents, and travel routes. These tactile tools provided information through touch, making navigation possible even when visibility was poor.
Juxtaposing personal experience and global cultural concepts, (be)longing is an attempt to find a connection between identity and place in today’s world.
Special thanks to Symphocat and Ruslan Bobko for their support in creating the project