The Mapping Journey Project. Video Installation. 2008-2011

"The Mapping Journey Project". 2008–11. Eight-channel video (color, sound). Installation view, solo exhibition, "Bouchra Khalili: The Mapping Journey Project", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 9–October 10, 2016. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar
"The Mapping Journey Project". 2008–11. Eight-channel video (color, sound). Installation view, solo exhibition, "Bouchra Khalili: The Mapping Journey Project", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 9–October 10, 2016. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar
"The Mapping Journey Project". 2008–11. Eight-channel video (color, sound). Installation view, solo exhibition, "Bouchra Khalili: The Mapping Journey Project", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 9–October 10, 2016. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar
The Mapping Journey Project. Video installation. 2008-2011. 8 single channels. Variable dimensions. View at the exhibition "Here and Elsewhere", New Museum, New York. July - September, 2014.
The Mapping Journey Project. Video installation. 2008-2011. 8 single channels. Variable dimensions. View at the 10th Sharjah Biennale, 2011
Mapping Journey #7, from The Mapping Journey Project. Video. 6'. 2011

Produced between 2008 and 2011, The Mapping Journey Project is an installation composed of 8 single channel videos. 

This project aims to draw an alternative practice of map-making elaborated and shaped from the perspective of individuals forced to cross borders illegally. Each of the videos is based on one long static shot. A hand holding a permanent marker draws literally on a map the tortuous and complex roads across borders that forced illegal journeys generate, while off-screen the narrators recounts factually the journey.