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Vestiges (an archipelago)

Vestiges (an archipelago)

  • 2020
  • Audiovisual essay
  • 41:21 min

Composed as a typology of islands, Vestiges (an archipelago) is an audiovisual essay that investigates humans’ insatiable demand of sand, the most extracted natural resource after water. A poetic narrative maze where colonialism, dredging machines or land reclamation projects emerge. A story of how sand is entangled in a global machine that has been named progress, constantly shaping how landscapes, natural resources or geo-political values are being assembled.

After water, sand is the most extracted natural material by humans, our society is built on it (quite literally) and contrary to what is thought, it is also a limited material whose extraction is causing irreparable damages in nature. This work is part of Vestiges, an interdisciplinary project that investigates the insatiable demand of sand as well as its socio-political and environmental consequences.