MARISA FERREIRA

Cartographic Series “White Gold” Dreams

2024

Valchromat, Approx 70x122x2cm

“White Gold” Dreams is a cartographic series examining the matrix of power that exists between extractive practices and land exploitation. This ongoing project documents the changing landscapes that are emerging in the future lithium mines of Covas do Barroso, northern Portugal, and present it through fictional counter maps drawn from drone and aerial imagery. The series seeks to investigate how the territorial dispossession by powerful national and multinational corporations is being imposed by their assumptions about the environment.