Montagens Decoloniais: os atingidos pela mineração na fotografia e no audiovisual [Decolonial Montages: the affected by mining in the photography and film]

In this essay, we explore how intense changes in the environment are visualized in photography and contemporary audiovisual, also seeking to explore their political potential and problematize them ethically and historically. We focus here on the catastrophes caused by mining in the last 10 years in Minas Gerais, working with recent productions in both photography and audiovisual. Guided by both Didi-Huberman and Arielle Azoulai, we resorted to the method of montage to traverse a threshold in which there are, side by side, traces of surviving things, heterogeneous, anachronistic, disunited by gaps and, for that very reason, capable of to leave in a state of alertness to the differences, to the details that we didn’t pay attention to before.