Abstract
Garro documents the precarious living conditions of women laboring in illegal gold mining camps in the Peruvian Amazon. Through vivid images of overcrowded sleeping quarters, makeshift structures, and marked enclosures, the series exposes how extractivist economies exploit not only land but also the bodies of women, rendering them disposable within cycles of displacement and abuse. The body emerges as both laboring instrument and site of violation, while the territory, stripped of vegetation and overtaken by tarpaulin shelters, bears the scars of environmental devastation.
Citation
Garro, Marco. 2016. 'Serie Esclavas de la fiebre de oro [Series Slaves of the Golden Fever]'. Dispossessions in the Americas. https://staging.dia.upenn.edu/en/art/APER063/
