Biografia
Mining, minerals and Earth matters are at the core of artist Jeannette Unite's practice. In her projects TERRA and COMPLICIT GEOGRAPHIES Unite throws light on human activity on land measured, regulated, mapped and divided.
Unite brings together, along with her vast collection of images relating to industrial landscapes, her deep interest in mining and its impact on the land, her great pleasure in colour and materials. In this mix she engages both in a study of archive, in the evocation of landscape as metonymy and in a kind of monumentalism that is reminiscent of Earth artists who at once drew attention to the bleak limits of human habitation and the human effects of exploitation of land that, today, presents itself as an environmental crisis.
