Counter-Mapping Corporeal Borderlands: Border Imaginaries in the Americas

Abstract

This article seeks to explore the geography of borders and borderlands in the Americas by looking at the photographs of Tatiana Parcero. In her works, Parcero palimpsestically uses a series of anatomical drawings, codices, and maps, chemical constructions, which she projects on the female body, mostly her own. In thinking from the concept of bordertextures, my analysis of the corporeal borderlands of this artist will expose her strategies of counter-mapping. Laying bare the border imaginaries that Parcero’s images design, I will show how her works expose the faultlines that borders create in the dominant cultural imaginary in the Americas.