Mijn / Dijn
EN: ‘Mine / Thine’ (2024)
Bricks, made out of river sediments originating from mountainscapes far away (or rather close by?), gave shape to the human environment. Once stacked into walls, creating rooms, they become carriers of great monetary value. Clayish riverbeds became our houses. Landscapes shaped by meandering river flows became a minescape of extraction. Old brick factories, once sites of exploitation of humans as well as more-than-humans, were closed down to make space for brick-machines. Old factories are broken down, leaving sites of ecological destruction with monumental chimney remnants as a gravestone.
What stories do these places tell us? How can human presence in such places alter the anthropocentric course of destruction to a path of healing?
