Emilio Pemjean

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The Land of the Lotus-Eaters

The Land of the Lotus-Eaters explores territories that extend beyond the limits of the known world, those spaces charged with myths, fears, and projections of the imagination. As in the Homeric tradition, where Ulysses' companions forgot their return after tasting the lotus, the project investigates the desire to inhabit the unknown and the attraction to places that, although disappeared, remain essential to keeping alive the hope that the world retains unexplored areas. In antiquity, maps showed gray patches: incomplete, barely described spaces, where fantastic creatures and impossible landscapes emerged. Today, these voids have disappeared from cartography, but they survive in memory, in archives, and in the need to dream.

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