It was proposed the realization of a project that would expose - whether social, political, or relational - of the prospection and eventual extraction of lithium in the Portuguese territory. From a more emotional approach, the group sought to reflect on their own relationship with the Earth, as people and professionals who actively benefit from its exploitation. With this work, we also tried to become, in a literal way, the exploited Earth, to show that it is impossible to conceive human beings and nature as separated things. The destruction of one leads to the inevitable destruction of the other.
Initially, we intended to collect satellite images, showing the distortion that was happening in the landscape due to lithium prospecting in Portugal.
In a second moment, we started to make scans of our bodies, to simulate in them the same deformation that was happening on the ground because of lithium prospecting.
In a second moment, we started to make scans of our bodies, to simulate in them the same deformation that was happening on the ground because of lithium prospecting.
We faced quite a few difficulties in this image collection, so we decided that we would make free distortions, ideally that would look like the image that appears the most when we search for lithium. We are speculating about what the the consequences of lithium mining will be on our bodies. Because it's something that's going to happen in the future, even though we don't know how it's going to happen, we're making an equivalence - to deform the Earth is to deform ourselves, we are the Earth - we don't want these distortions to be faithful to deformations that currently exist in the landscape.
