from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016,Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes. 10x11x4,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 10x7x4,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 8,9x7x5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes,14x17x8,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 21x17x18cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 10x11x6cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 12x11x6,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 9x8x9,7 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 11x14x8,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 16x7x4,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 9,6x8x5 cm.

The Future of Stones - speculation on contaminated matter 

In the city of Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, on November 5th 2015, a mining dam broke causing the world‘s second worst environmental catastrophe of its kind. This event has affected the region and beyond in unpredictable and irreversible ways, leading to dramatic changes. This project engages in a speculative geology around the material outcomes of this happening.

Samples of contaminated earth were collected from four different locations affected by the waste product released during the accident. They have empirically been experimented with on the development of a stone from the future - an aggregation of present earthly matters elapsed into a prognosis. Here stones are seen as media, which concentrate multidimensional information, specially on what concerns time.

The collapse in Bento Rodrigues represents a tendency that draws our times together. In this pseudo-alchemist speculative design, a post-human geology is illustrated, gathering worldly experience and projecting how Earth may unfold from here and now.

Project developed in collaboration with Professor Dr. Martin Kaupenjohann, the Institute of Applied Geosciences, and the Geochemical Laboratory at TU Berlin, Germany.

text by Monai de Paula Antunes, Published in Affen, Steine, Kühlerhauben | Mart Stam Preis Publication 2017 | Berlin, DE

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 10x7x4,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 8,9x7x5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes,14x17x8,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 21x17x18cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 10x11x6cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 12x11x6,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 9x8x9,7 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 11x14x8,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 16x7x4,5 cm.

from the series: The Future of Stones, 2016, Soil samples collected after the environmental crime in Mariana, Brazil, following an experimental simulation of rock formation processes, 9,6x8x5 cm.