In his works Martin Schepers investigates what happens when a landscape is transformed into a
laboratory for technological research-related and also artistic processes. Since 2020 the
artist has been working on his project Im Lithiumdreieck - Wir verdunsten (In the lithium
triangle - we are evaporating) which addresses one of the most controversial issues of our
time: the mining of raw materials and its conditions and consequences. Schepers explores its
impact on society on people and their connection with landscape and on the landscape itself
and its ecosystems. Taking a look behind the scenes of the production of batteries in a
transnational and participatory experiment he artistically examines the mining of lithium in
Chile and a German research institute that focuses on lithium as a raw material. By
transferring technological and ecological processes into his art it becomes a medium for
making real interrelationships visible. In an impressive way Schepers calls on us to view
landscape as a place in which the Anthropocene manifests itself with all its consequences.
