Transiting

“Terra Incognita (2015-19) is a site-specific performance documented through photography, where Gabrielle engages in dialogue with the landscape through movements of her body. This interaction is an act of introspection where the artist reflects on the boundaries within the self. It is also a reflection of how fictional geographic boundaries around unknown territories, seen as unclaimed territories, were transgressed by Europe’s desire for expansion.   The title references a term in cartography for unknown territories during Europe’s Age of Discovery (roughly between the 15th and 18th centuries). Mapping out the places that still haven’t been ‘discovered’ was the first step in the practice of objectification and domination of the territories of the Caribbean. Terra Incognita is an invitation to indagate into these processes, but with receptivity and silence instead of force and violence.” Anna Maria Hernandez.