This mine is mine

three metal structures, cardboard, light wires, 120 cm × 56 cm × 200 cm each

Visitors are invited to climb onto three metal structures to discover luminous maps inside cardboard boxes

These maps were created from drawings by children who traced their daily journeys through underground mines in India and Bolivia. Each color of thread corresponds to the different strata of the galleries they traversed.

For Bertille Bak, the ensemble composes "a kind of radiography of the ground and a spotlight on these young people propelled into the veins of Mother Earth. These working children are omnipresent yet invisible. This labor force is ideal here because they can slip into the heart of narrow tunnels. The project takes the opposite stance to this dramatic condition by avoiding any moralizing intent toward the viewer. The narrative offered is akin to a fable, drawing from the realm of childhood in its most innocent form. A naive and yet cynical response to the right to education."

Design and realization of metal structures :
-- Charles-Henry Fertin, atelier L’ensemblier