In his work, Martin Schepers explores the question of what happens when landscape becomes a laboratory for technological and research-related, but also artistic, processes.

In his project “In the Lithium Triangle – We Evaporate,” which the artist has been working on since 2020, Schepers deals with one of the most explosive topics of the moment: raw material mining with all its conditions and consequences for society, people and their connection to the landscape as well as for the landscape and its ecosystems themselves.

In a cross-national and participatory experimental setup, Schepers takes a look behind the scenes of battery production by artistically examining the mining of lithium in Chile and a German research institution dedicated to the raw material lithium. Because Schepers transfers technological and ecological processes into his artistic work, his art becomes a medium for making real connections visible. In an impressive way, Schepers calls for us to understand landscape as a place in which the Anthropocene with all its consequences manifests itself.