Mother and Child
By Arabel Lebrusan
2022 - 2023
- Installation Art
- Sculpture
- Environment & Sustainability
- Social & Political
- Extractivism
- Iron Ore
- Ecofeminism
- Ecological Grief
- Death
- Loss
- Mining
- Mourning
Dimensions
70x50x90cm
Mother and Child is a set of 2 plaques made in iron, featuring a portrait of Eliane Mello and her 6-month-old unborn child who died at the Brumandinho iron mine disaster in Brazil in 2019. It’s displayed on a table covered with Chita fabric, a textile traditionally made in Brazil, that around 1950’s became a symbol of “Brazilianness” in Brazilian modernism.
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