Liliana Farber is a Brooklyn based Uruguayan artist. She had solo shows at 1708 gallery, Richmond, VA; Arebyte gallery, London; Dodecá Center, Marte UpMarket gallery, and MEC gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay. She participated in group shows at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal; The National Museum of Fine Arts, Chile; The National Museum of Visual Arts, Uruguay; Ars Electronica, Austria; WRO Media Art Biennale, Poland; Katonah Museum of Art, NY; Glassbox Art Space, Paris; and more. Farber received the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, the Network Culture Award, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, and the Art and Technology Award, Montevideo City Hall.
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"Maps embody narratives and world perspectives. Atlases and charts visualize layered collections of data, sourced from different origins, compiled and modified to become canon as they survive the tests of time. In scholar John Pickles’ words, “Maps do not only represent a territory but produce it.” Historically, in addition to being used as tools for navigation, maps epistemologically define the world. They delineate hierarchies of power, what is accessible and what is beyond reach, what is real, and what is fiction. Maps are the tools of empires. Google Earth is no exception.
Liliana Farber
