Biografia
The main body of my work is based on landscape studies, especially from areas in which mineral resources are exploited. I am interested especially in the topographic and social changes connected with the dismantling of a landscape.
I have lived eight years of my early life in Chuquicamata – the biggest open-pit copper mine of the world—located in the middle of the Atacama Desert, in the north of Chile. When this settlement was about to be buried due to the growth of the mine, I returned to register this process using video and photography. The resettlement of the former inhabitants, the change of the landscape and the perceptible consequences for the environment were some of the subjects in which I could work from the material originated, creating a series of videos, photographs and installations which I have presented in different exhibitions in Chile.
After moving to Berlin in 2007, I have continued my subject, focusing not with copper anymore, but with coal. The historical context of coal has interested me during the last two years, on the one hand, as the originally most important energy source in Germany, and on the other, the mineral material as object of my works.
