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Artwork Description

"Minerasophia" by Mále Uribe is a material reflection on mineral wisdom. It emerges from the observation of the territorial behavior and everyday uses of stones and minerals such as limestone and basalt from the Colina quarries in the central region, salts and mining tailings from the Atacama Desert, and Combarbalite, a stone native to the town of Combarbalá in the Coquimbo region that has been declared a national stone. The artist explores the possibilities of altering, through the textures, geometries, and colors of these stones, the narratives constructed around them. She uses as a starting point the tailings, excesses, and residues from the artisanal processes of local quarrymen or industrial mining extractions, and mobilizes, through the transformation of materials, the value hierarchies associated with them. The result is a series of eloquent fragments, minerals in ecstasy, and rocky surroundings: living stones and minerals that express themselves vigorously, defying their perception as inert and rubble. A new materialism that, like a telluric movement, shakes matrices of meaning inscribed on the Earth's surface.