Damiani deepens the investigation that started with Victory Atlas (2012- 2018), which explores the traditional function of maps as instruments of navigation and illustration of the physical characteristics of a location; and in which she affects their ability to narrate a story and describe a territory in a subjective way. Now, her gaze is focused on Aeolian maps, graphic representations of the movement of winds.
These diagrams do not measure the phenomenon, but rather the means in which it has been set as a representation. Wind, seemingly lacking materiality, is usually measured in relation to force and direction, in other words, in relation to a potentiality. As in her previous series, the information contained in the original maps is altered through erasure, drawing and collage, in order to build a new space that is finally mental. The prints are part of a recent investigation around Aeolian forces, and how they erode the Earth’s surface and transport dust particles among continents.
In the series Mineral Cartographies, Damiani worked with found maps and microphotographs of minerals cut into thin slices. The original series of maps belongs to an Atlas titled Geographic Exercises, published in London in 1775. These maps were originally drawn to be completed by students so the blank outlined prints only include certain elements such as grid lines, titles and borders. The photographs of mineral sections compose imaginary territories in a mosaic layout onto the coordinate grids.