Bárbara Lissa and Maria Vaz: Paisagens Móveis seminar on "When Time Lasts a Tone."

CVAC is delighted ot welcome an artist duo: Bárbara Lissa and Maria Vaz, 'Paisagens Móveis' for a seminar talk on their series "When Time Lasts a Tone." 

The work responds to Brazil's worst industrial disaster: the 2019 Córrego do Feijão mining dam collapse, which killed over 270 people and spilled millions of cubic meters of mining waste. To make the invisible trauma of the landscape visible, the artists used a unique photographic process. By collecting contaminated water and iron ore dust from the site and incorporating them into the film development, they create photographs that act as a direct material testimony of the devastated territory.

The seminar is part of CVAC’s ongoing project on Visuality and Extraction

About the artists:

Bárbara Lissa and Maria Vaz have been working together since 2017, as the duo PAISAGENS MÓVEIS. Both are PhD students at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), hold master's and bachelor's degrees in Arts, and have backgrounds in Literature. Their practice, situated at the intersection of art and ecology, utilizes expanded field photography. They experiment with image and word, analogue and digital, and the appropriation of archival images. They have held solo exhibitions, Cidade-Jardim (2025), at the Museum of Image and Sound in Belo Horizonte; Três Momentos de um Rio (2024), part of the Foto em Pauta Festival programme; and Quando o tempo dura uma tonelada (2022). They have also participated in several national and international group exhibitions, such as MINAS - Photographie contemporaine brésilienne, part of the Photaumnales festival (France, 2025), FotoFest Colombia (Cololmbia, 2025), and Foto Arica (Chile, 2024). Also, they published the photobooks Óris, by Selo Tuvo (2023) and Três Momentos de um Rio (2021).