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Landscapes of Extraction
2024
Goldsmiths, University of London
Interim Show 2024 Art & Ecology MA
Looking at the images of archaeological excavations of the tomb of King Den in Egypt in the British Museum, the memory of a personal encounter with open pit mining emerges. The scales are not similar yet the material similarities make them related: the act of unearthing funerary vessels and extracting minerals are both perpetuated by structures of colonial extractivism - imposing a system of profanation of the material world as sacred. In the installation work, scans of funerary vessels are reinserted in the landscapes of excavated tombs and open pit mines, interweaving the historical roots of colonial mining and archaeological looting.
Video 4:38 min (loop), sound installation 5:15 min (loop) Steel, sand, PLA.
Paola Bascón