With this work, Rivane Neuenschwander sets out to create a map of the world without leaving the borders of Brazil, photographing buildings named after other places. The images have been printed as postcards that visitors may take and post to yet another location, circulating the work to a potentially global audience in the process.  

Mapa-mundi BR (postal) draws on Neuenschwander’s interest in language and the legacies of conceptual art. The work’s serial presentation, and the artist’s use of the international mail network to disseminate it, also connects with a ‘proto-globalism’ that characterised the mail–art networks of Fluxus art in the 1960s and 70s.