Iza Koczanowska – artist and researcher – Berlin / Amsterdam
Errancies
2025
Research through wandering and
trace-based font
Costa del Sol
Grounded in feminist geography, the work
uses walking as a research method along
the densely populated beaches of Spain’s
Costa del Sol. Through GPS-mapping my
trajectories, I remap the beach through
bodily movement, examining how mass
tourism reshapes access to shared space.
Walking reveals compressed and inacces-
sible fragments of terrain, where bodies
interrupt the postcard image of the beach
and become part of its landscape.
The recorded trajectories are transformed
into forms corresponding to actual beach
fragments shaped by mass tourism. These
fragments are rescaled and materialised as
sculptural forms using biomaterials, while
their shapes are also developed into a
typographic alphabet. Together, they re-
cord changing conditions of access, bodily
presence, and spatial pressure.