Hypodermis of the earth – Projection, 2024

The triptych Hipoderme da Terra (2024) has as its starting point the history of mining in the interior of Brazil and, particularly, the violence contained in the depletion of Pico do Cauê, in Itabira-MG, transformed into a crater. Carlos Drummond de Andrade, popularly known as the "stone poet", speaks of Pico do Cauê as a "pulverized mountain". For its part, Hipoderme da Terra is a triptych of distorted image, sound and text.

This work consists of a long metal box on a plinth, which resembles a mining wagon or an old camera, where we find a photograph of Pico do Cauê projected onto smoke. Technique inspired by the work of artist Rosangela Rennó, who uses smoke to blur her images, the projection points to the volatility of memory, here transposed to the context of mining in Itabira, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Furthermore, smoke refers to the Industrial Revolution and the increase in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. In all of Loyola's works, the absence of humans has a double function: at the same time that it foregrounds the deep time of geology, it opens up an imaginary in which humanity's impact on the Earth has become fossilized. In this scenario, the questions that remain revolve around our future ancestry. How does our relationship with the Earth influence our language and, in turn, our subjectivity? And how does this reality affect what we leave behind? For whom?