Hypodermis of the earth – Printer, 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 small metal box hanging from the ceiling, containing a small printer that, during the exhibition, prints a selection of poems by Drummond de Andrade. Throughout the exhibition at Coletivo Amarelo, and based on an algorithm sensitive to the fluctuation in the price of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce's iron on the stock exchange, the poems will be interfered with by texts from Vale's ESG portal. This portal contains information about the environmental, social and governance performance of this large Minas Gerais company. Thus, the printer represents the contamination between the apparently objective narratives of the market, and the situated counter-narratives of the poet.