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.