Research about an artificial mountain called Beckton Alps is the central theme of the video. Beckton Alps is an ultimate scenario of a post-industrialization period. Nowadays, there is a heap of industrial debris in the place where used to have a gas works industry. It is called “alps” since the times the gas industry was active. Back then, there used to be endless black mountains of the original gasworks due to the large number of chemical by-products resulting from gas production. They used to be called the Alps ironically; today, there is only one big mount made of these rejects, and it is still called the Alps. 

The entire project is the Trilogy of Mountains, and it is related to landscape and memory. Trilogy of the Mountains is devised in three parts: Alpenprojekt, based on the alpine relief; the second one approaches Beckton Alps, an artificial mountain in east London; and the third part is related to artificial mountains made with war debris in Germany. 

The research was made possible thanks to Bolsa Iberê Camargo granted in 2012 by Iberê Camargo Foundation for a residency at Gasworks, London.

Video | 12:29 min. | 2018