BUALA

A Geography of Permission

Its beaches are the final surface of a deep geological and political stratigraphy, where the history of extraction continues under new names. I began this journey at the edge of Europe, where the continent folds into the Atlantic, and the maps run out. I ended it on the other side of the same water, where the maps were always drawn by someone else, for someone else, with someone else’s interests marking the center. To turn the map upside down, as I suggested at the outset, is not merely a metaphor: it is an epistemological act, a way of asking whose knowledge counts, whose memory is archived and whose is submerged. The sea between Lisbon and Kingston is not empty. It is the most crowded place on earth, full of unreported deaths and stories. The time has come to gather them, to bring them back into view, and to listen, carefully, tirelessly, to the voices that history tried to drown.

I'll visit

19.06.2026 | by Carlotta Pisano