McCormick exhaustively looks into the meanings of the word territory in Colombia and produces unprecedented correspondences among the multiple sides of this notion in the Colombian context and the political power of this word. Se intercambia territorio (Exchangeable territory) comes from the inability to name my territory a land that legally belongs to her, but is affected by armed conflict. She uses useless legal documents as fertilizer for growing portable territories –any visitor can take one. Thus, her own memories activate the collective memory about it. Her Territorio inestable (Unstable Territory), the moldy shoe the artist found, has grown, photographed and drawn in Medellin since 2001, returns now as an optimistic hyperbola of the possibility of meeting the desired place or as a reality assumed in its full uncertainty, in its contingent and elusive nature.
