Mineralis

Extraction. Colonization. Reversal.

Minerals are our discreet foundations. In an era of scarcity, it becomes necessary to rethink our relationship to extraction, as we do for the living. Mineralis observes the tension between industrial degradation and crystalline regeneration.

Mineralis examines extraction sites as wounded geological systems. The works originate from materials born of mining exploitation (aluminum, brass, obsidian), abandoned or recycled. Crystals naturally colonize these industrial remnants, reversing their original function. What was extracted becomes a site of regrowth.

Rather than repairing landscapes, the work exposes slow and ambiguous transformation processes. Matter reacts, mutates, reclaims its rights. The sculptures function as fragments of a disturbed geology where industrial debris and crystalline formations coexist without resolution.

Mineralis does not propose restoration. It observes the tension between degradation and regeneration.