Mineral Ecologies
Exhibition opening
Through visual, textual, material, spoken and cinematic narratives, Mineral Ecologies invites us to understand the unity and interdependence of these layered histories.
Fossil specimens and rocks, such as those from the Dolomites, tell of a deep temporal dimension that is more than just human. Clays and core samples trace the ancestral history that links humans to minerals: from the origin of the first forms of life to the extraction processes in the mines.
The site-specific installation by Chiara Camoni and Il Centro di Sperimentazione (the Experimentation Centre) translates the permeability between the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms through a conviviality of shapes, colours and materials that coexist in a shared space.
The exhibition’s ecosystem composes a new organism in dialogue with films by Yto Barrada, Liv Bugge and Ana Vaz, and the narrating voices of Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Regina José Galindo, Pauline Julier, Marzia Migliora, Cynthia Montier, Ophèlie Naessens, Micol Roubini and Raghad Saqfalhait.
Their research expands our understanding of the economic, historical, political and cultural dynamics that have shaped human relationships with geological matter.
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Guided tour of the exhibition on Thursday 4 July 2024 at 18.30 with an introduction by Patrizia Famà, Alice Labor and Chiara Camoni, in video connection
Source: https://www.muse.it/en/events/mineral-ecologies-2024/
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