LORENZO POLI – THE GEOGLYPHS OF OUR TIME
2025-09-29Geoglyphs are ancestral symbolic forms, etched into the ground with dry-stone lines, cleared furrows, and tamped soil. Created by Indigenous communities as ritual acts, they embody communal cosmologies across the landscape, a shared vision of the Cosmos. Often aligned with constellations or natural features and most legible from above, they weave culture, Land, and the heavens.”
This photographic investigation is a personal reflection on human values and how they are carved into the Earth’s body. I have traversed South America’s mining territories for fifteen months in search of meaning. As an architect expanding my practice into the realm of the visual arts, I have sought to engage with the spiritual dimensions of our epoch, immersing myself in monumental voids that descend into the Earth’s depths. From the air and from the ground, what emerged transcended the commodification of minerals for the energy transition: these voids exist as testaments to humanity’s aspirations..
Opposite – The Mountain of Silver. The skeleton of minted Globalisation, Cerro Rico – Bolivia 1545
Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2025
Pictura Gallery
202 S Rogers St
Bloomington
IN 47404
