An old sixteenth-century colonial legend from South America, "The White King and the Silver Mountain," promised that by traveling up a great river in the south of the continent, one would reach the kingdom of a monarch who ruled from a mountain made entirely of silver. This story would mark the beginning of a race to exhaust the continent's resources for foreign gain. The river in question was none other than the Río de la Plata, in Argentina. The legendary mountain was Cerro Potosí - a triangular peak known as one of the richest silver deposits in history, stripped of its resources during the Spanish occupation. Today, 500 years later, this same race to exploit resources continues in another triangular form: the Lithium Triangle, spanning Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile, a region that holds more than 65% of the world's lithium reserves, commonly known as "white oil."
Galerie Madé
Galerie Madé has specialized in representing photographic artists for more than ten years. It has exhibited the work of Marguerite Bornhauser, Lucile Boiron, Pascal Amoyel, Céline Clanet, Bertrand Cavalier, Steve Hiett, Camille Vivier, Alan Eglinton, Mark Steinmetz, Andrea Modica, and others.