Place X departs from the poem by Alexis Pauline Gumbs to reflect on the mechanisms of extracting value from bodies, ecosystems, life, relationships.
Extractivism marks the place of the treasure with an X. At this moment, no place, body, or form of life remains unmarked. This project intends to create fictional maps of the places where we don't want or we can't return, because there isn’t any treasure to extract, nor any pleasure to discover. And, at the same time, to investigate camouflage actions to create narratives about what we still want and can preserve.
Place X investigates the gestures that we need to remain alive, within devastation; the actions that recreate, summon, remember life. How to create bodies out ruins, ghosts and debts?