A journey from a silver mine exploited for more than 500 years to the largest -almost intact- lithium deposit in the world. Spatial installation that addresses the human footprint left by extraction
techniques in uninhabited places. A narrative that links the extractivist and neo-extractivist dialogues of Potosí, a region of Bolivia that is home to the Cerro Rico silver mine, mined since 1545 that produced half of the world’s silver trade for more than two centuries, with the Thunupa salt lake desert where more than half of the world’s lithium reserve is still unexploited and where a German company will start mining in 2022 under a 70-year extractive agreement. A 32-channel audio installation, which takes place between the physical plane and a virtual reality platform, based on field recordings, acoustic phenomena – from geogenic to anthropogenic sounds -, the miners‘ perspective and the Andean worldview. The project creates an asymmetrical diptych between the physical space and the virtual world, at a time of environmental, economic and social crisis.