Bodies of Extraction - Underneath the Ground of Islands Medusa ‘An intense and penetrating work

‘An intense and penetrating work about the profound impact of living with violence – Shibli’s work is powerful and this translation by Elisabeth Jaquette is rendered with exquisite clarity and quiet control

Catalina Imizcoz

By turns haunted and hopeful

Jeffrey Zuckerman)

Bodies of Extraction - Underneath the Ground of Islands Medusa ‘An intense and penetrating workWhat does it mean to drill deep and interfere with the configuration of tectonic plates? What does it mean to hollow out and alienate islandic undergrounds? How is wealth extracted and exploited from the ground, crumbled into fragments, transformed into matter, pieces of power, moved away to be represented elsewhere? Whose lungs and souls are capitalized upon and hidden under the suffocating dust in mining shafts? To whom do the surface of the land