Silver Rights

This publication presents an in-depth research project by artist Elena Mazzi in dialogue with the Mapuche spiritual leader, silversmith and activist, Mauro Millan and Argentinean artist, Eduardo Molinari, about the cultural resistance of the Mapuche people to neo-colonialism in Chile. 'Silver Rights' focuses on the ancestral bond between the communities and the land (mapu), a bond eroded and denied by colonising forces that have mutated over the centuries to gradually establish themselves in recent decades through neo-extractivist practices.