Women in mining 2

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 2

Geologists follow the gold veins in Córrego do Sitio, Minas Gerais. Insight in the ambient underground of depth, scale, humidity and machinery. 

Women in mining 2
Artist/Author: Mabe Bethonico

Authors: Mabe Bethônico and Joerg Bader, edited by Tamires Muniz