FERTILE GROUND BRAZIL
A painting-based research on soil as geopolitical, historical and affective material
FERTILE GROUND BRAZIL is a long-term painting project that investigates soil as a geopolitical, historical and symbolic material.
By transforming Brazilian earth into pigment and surface, the work shifts the ground from a site of extraction into a living archive of memory, origin and belonging.
The project departs from the first colonial description of Brazil as a fertile land in the 1500 letter of Pêro Vaz de Caminha and repositions this narrative within the contemporary global dispute over rare earths — territories whose material value defines current structures of power.
Here, the soil is not approached as a resource, but as a condition of existence.
soil as archive
The ground operates as a material record where time, history and experience are sedimented.
rare earth geopolitics
Pigment is understood as a territorial element, linking colour to global systems of extraction, circulation and power.
decolonial materiality
The work reclaims land as memory and belonging, shifting it from economic value to cultural and existential presence.
