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El Rey Blanco
hearth
zines
A cinq cents métres de l’effondrement (2022)
Arriver au port et attendre que la ville s’éveille (2021)
Tout ce qui pend d’un fil (2016)
Pianos en Arabia (2014)
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El Rey Blanco
hearth
zines
A cinq cents métres de l’effondrement (2022)
Arriver au port et attendre que la ville s’éveille (2021)
Tout ce qui pend d’un fil (2016)
Pianos en Arabia (2014)
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The project is based on two triangular shapes located in the same region: a mountain and a geographical area delimited by three points.
The mountain, currently known as “Cerro de Potosí” was the most important silver mine in the history of mankind, exploited until its exhaustion during the Spanish colonial occupation of Latin America.
The geographical area, known as “The Lithium Triangle”, is delimited between Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, where almost 70% of the world's lithium reserves, known as “the new oil”, are concentrated.
With a strong dreamlike visual component, inspired by a legend and retracing the path of the Spanish colonizers, I draw a parallelism between the two triangles and question the exploitation of natural resources, its human, economic and environmental consequences.
“Silver Vein” - sculpture: Rock, silvery metal, 2024
“Open Veins” duo show at PhMuseum Lab (05 Dec 2024 - 23 Jan 2025) along with Sarah Schneider and Stella Meyer, curated by Camilla Marrese and Giuseppe Oliverio. Credits : Rosa Lacavalla - PhMuseum
“The Lithium Triangle worth a Potosi”
5 pure silver coins - 6.67 g each.
Paris, France, 2024 - 1/1
Inspired by one of the coins minted with silver from the Cerro de Potosi in the same city by the Spanish during the occupation of South America, I have recreated 5 coins totally made in silver that keeps in the face the original minted model, with the year of the presumed discovery of the hill by the aboriginal Diego Huallpa in 1545. In the mint, as if echoing that they are the two faces of the same coin, I reproduce the silhouette of the 5 most important Lithium deposits in Latin America, adding their name and the phrase “Vale un Potosi” which in Hispanic voice refers to something that contains an extraordinary wealth. In low relief, each coin is crossed by lines, which when put together, form a triangle, making reference to the fact that, The Lithium Triangle is worth a Potosi.
“Paisaje N°1” - 20 x 25 cm
Lithium-Silver Wet Plate reproduction.
2024
This reproduction, of an intervened landscape, is made with the wet collodion technique, in which silver salts and lithium salts (the two main metals of the project) were used to reproduce the image.
Showcased on:
FISHEYE
PhMuseum
Little Stories x Diversion Studio
PhMuseum Lab
Der_Greif x Rencontres d’Arles - Screening “Face to Face” - Rencontres d’Arles, 2024