Carine & Elisabeth Krecké

Carine Krecké (1965, Luxembourg) Navigation Poems forms part of the project 404 NOT FOUND (2012–6), created in collaboration with Elisabeth Krecké (1965). Between 2012 and 2015, the artists accumulated several hundred screenshots of street views from Ciudad Juárez, captured using Google Street View. Located on the border with the United States, Ciudad Juárez has, since the early 1990s, been marked by a wave of murders and disappearances of women, many of which remain unsolved. From this extensive visual archive, the artists raise a fundamental question: can the city's violence be perceived in these images? Yet because these images are property of Google, they cannot be exhibited. The project thus explores a range of strategies for engaging with these restricted materials, one of which is the Navigation Poems written by Carine Krecké. Composed in English, the poems evoke scenes of daily life, drawn from the captured by images, offering a sensitive and fragmentary portrait of the city. Displayed on an electroluminescent sign – typically found in public spaces – they unfold as poetic fragments of a complex reality.