Paul Mesnager
"Geography of Domination" is a poetic attempt to observe the materiality of political power through the analysis of satellite images. The strategies of controlling resources, territories, and populations leave profound marks on the ground, to the extent that geostrategy can be read in the absence of humans, by examining the earth's contours and the scars left on the surface by bombings, excavations, fences and walls. These images, bordering on abstraction, blur the boundaries between large and small scales, prompting questions about the ability of new technologies to render the world more intelligible. The documentation of the images, written in collaboration with specialists, anchors these abstract images in reality.