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Underground Tornado
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The artist, who has lived for the past decade in Minas Gerais, Brazil's largest mining state, has witnessed firsthand the profound impacts of mining.
The collapse of two tailings dams in 2015 and 2019 were among the most devastating environmental disasters of the century, drawing international attention. In response to the destruction caused by extractive mining processes, Blass transforms open-pit crater representations into theater stage arenas. The monumental scale of the excavations and the immense surrounding landscape are reduced to a human scale by the heavy machinery. By incorporating micro and macro dimensions within a single representation, Blass aims to humanize the vast socio-political, economic, and environmental forces and bridge them with individual subjectivities and interpersonal relationships. -
Images of the "Undergroung Tornado" exhibition at the Albuquerque Contemporanea Gallery
Underground Tornado: Tatiana Blass
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