Deleted Land
The body of work is a visual essay of the area marked by the largest mining activity in Slovakia. That leaves traces not only on the surface. Thousands of kilometers-long corridors are meandering underneath us.
In 1988, as a consequence of lignite mining in the Horná Nitra region, the settlement of Laskár was displaced. The houses, mansion, and park succumbed to the mining field number 11. The ground collapsed, and trees submerged in water. The settlement disappeared from the map and from official records.
What do you see at the end? A human.
Morgien
Part of the Deleted Land project is a musical collaboration with the author Morgien, whose musical performance responds directly to the artist's photographs. He creates a sonic version of the erased land, based on recordings from Laskar, which have undergone a similar destruction as the village itself.
