As part of Feria Material (Vol. 11) in Mexico City, Voluspa Jarpa presented—together with La Oficina (Madrid)—two works on paper that continue her research into human zoos and the colonial devices of classification, display, and the production of racial “evidence.”

Built from intervened historical maps, the works shift territory away from a neutral backdrop and treat it as a matrix of circulation: routes, sites, and registers are overlaid with lists of human zoos (year, exhibited peoples, location, country, exhibition) and with photographs of displayed individuals, produced historically as documents for racial research. Through this superimposition of cartography, data, and visual archive, the map is displaced from a descriptive tool into a critical device—making visible how the colonial gaze organized and publicly disseminated racial hierarchies and narratives of “civilization.”