Lom2023 video loop
During the latter half of the 20th century, coal mining in the Czech Republic expanded rapidly to meet industrial demand. Entire villages were demolished to make way for open-pit mines, displacing communities and permanently altering the landscape.
Lom focuses on these erased settlements through a pairing of archival and contemporary images from the same locations. The comparison makes the transformation immediate: what was once inhabited is reduced to an extraction site.
The work traces this displacement, reflecting on the human cost of resource extraction and its lasting impact on both people and place. Lom raises questions about what is lost in the name of progress, and how these losses persist in both memory and terrain.