The artwork stands as one of the most powerful manifestations of geopolitical deconstruction in Miguel Ángel Ríos’s career. This exceptional piece of antique map art utilizes meticulous, three-dimensional paper pleating and physical folding to distort, wrinkle, and invert the colonial cartography of South America. By altering the rigid surface of the traditional historical map, Ríos directly challenges Western notions of borders, Eurocentric domination, and territorial sovereignty, transforming a static historical document into a dynamic relief that forces viewers to rethink geography and collective memory.
In the late nineties, and after traveling to regions as diverse as the Amazon basin and the Chihuahua desert, Ríos began to develop a body of work through which he addressed the meaning of hallucinogenic plants in the indigenous cultures of the American continent; a new cartography of the Americas but this time through other means of representation that account for the artist's subjective voyage into the territories of alterity. This art work it’s part of the collection of Bernardino Arocha and Mrs.Ríos chose to use specific mediums for the “documentation” of each experience. A series of drawings made under the influence of the Peyote cactus convey in the manner of automatic writing the delirium of the artist under the effects of the drug.
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