SLARG invites you to the launch of EURO—VISION: Undergrounding the Critical Mineral by the artist duo FRAUD.

Book presentation hosted by Joachim Ben Yakoub (SLARG), with Livia Kahn as discussant.

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Mining today reaches far beyond drills and quarries: it plays out in financial markets, legal frameworks, trade policies, and the very metrics that decide what counts as “critical.” From lithium and copper to the seabed and child labour, EURO—VISION examines how extraction is defined, legitimised, and contested in our time.

Bringing together artists, scholars, economists, activists, and journalists, the book explores the hidden infrastructures and governing logics of the mining sector. FRAUD introduce “undergrounding” as both method and provocation: a way to reveal the violence obscured by neutral data, and to rethink the mineral itself—its histories, its presence, and its futures.

Published in K. Verlag’s Processing Process series, EURO—VISION combines visual essays, interviews, and commissioned texts to open new perspectives on the entanglements of geology, economy, and power.

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FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo) is a duo which develop modes of art-led enquiry that examine the extractive gaze of the management of raw materials. Through their practice, FRAUD cultivate critical spatial literacy and cosmology building. FRAUD’s current investigations can be explored through the EURO⁠—VISION platform.

Livia Cahn is doing research in collaborative contexts and currently a PhD in Environmental Humanties at the Rachel Carson Centre (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich) on the drilling and storing of geological samples for mineral prospection.