For Expedition: Empathy, Rain Wu created a map about the impossibility of mapping. Maps deposit a small portion of the knowledge of a place, in an attempt to understand the world. But this deposit is only a fragment of an imperceptible whole made legible through perceptible measures that simplify the ungraspable complexity of the land in order to allow our understanding of it. By charting, we are able to take a viewpoint on which we can claim our sovereignty of a fractional knowledge, but the land is alive and it continues to evolve despite our efforts to fix it. Sabrina Island was an islet formed in 1811 by a submarine volcanic eruption off São Miguel in Azores. The first person to land in the new island was Commander James Tillard, a British captain who hoisted the Union Jack there. Following his claim of sovereignty for Great Britain, Tillard returned to the Azores but the island had disappeared. Inspired by this example of the upturning of natural forces, Wu’s installation is comprised of a three-dimensional metal grid inside which lie perishable changing objects. The project defies any attempt at measuring and rejects fixed notions of form and scale, proposing instead an evolving irresolution between matter and representation