"The primary operation of Claudia Missana’s work consists of the marking of spaces. Her work identifies places that are laden with connotations. It interferes with them in a way that, by dislocating briefly their landmarks and positions, discovers faults in their terrain that allow us to glimpse at their subterranean links to other areas. These intrusions reveal imperceptible sides: adjacencies between public and private spaces, fissures that open up memories, erosion produced by steps, by the dark winds of time and by everyday life. As reference marks, this unexpected damage allows for the drawing up of new cartographic diagrams from which to re-space or minimally dislocate space to leave room for an event.

As such, this work has a performance quality: it jumps out of the scene of representation to enter the abrupt dominions of reality and to discuss, from there, the established contour of that scene. By creating a minimal opening, it destabilizes the foundations of a certainty."*