Sofia Porto Bauchwitz / Group XL, Apr 2015 - Sep 2015

GROUP XL

9/5/15 to 9/5/15

Mackey Apartments and Garages 1137 S. Cochran Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019

More than just critiquing the spectacle of our current methods of navigating city space, Madrid-based artist Sofia Bauchwitz’s project You Can Touch Whatever is in Your Way was a praise of walking, in the spirit of California author Rebecca Solnit, imploring us to consider walking and its subjectivities as deeper forms of mapping, so that we may locate ourselves within the city and its conflicts. Bauchwitz handed over her understanding of the city to those that chose to show it to her. Asking acquaintances to tour her through whatever parts of the city they wished, she privileged the slowness of walking and peer-to-peer knowledge over the plethora of mapping options now assumed to be requisite via smartphones. You Can Touch Whatever is in Your Way was presented as a publication and installation.