Within her work, Maria Paris (Bogotá, Colombia, 1992) raises questions on how poetics can be a radical political tool. Concepts of absence and removal are entangled in various forms, reflecting on the emotional and political nature of places and language. A Measure of Distance reflects what is untranslatable, what gets lost in between. Reflecting on the emotional and political charge of language, the installation evokes acts of displacement as areas of meaning. By allowing space for slip-ups and inevitable misunderstandings, elements and space become translated surfaces.