Women in mining 1

Mineral Invisibility

Mineral Invisibility
Mabe Bethonico

The art project engages the ever-changing reality of the fast-growing mining industry in Minas Gerais, Brazil. With new documents and in circulating existing ones, Material Invisibility examines the rapid but publicly silent consumption of landscapes and vital resources. It is an investigation into silencing and image control.

Women in mining 1

Flavia sharpens drillers at the entry of an underground mine, she speaks of her role as women in the sector and of her fascination with the deep mine. 

Women in mining 1
Artist/Author: Mabe Bethonico

Authors: Mabe Bethônico, edited by Tamires Muniz