Nunca Enganaremos: The Living Nature of the Stone-dead

The project investigates the fantastic reality that bonds together fact and fiction, nature and culture, existence and extinction.

Evidence from hundreds of millions of years shows that Earth and life have gone through massive changes across time, but for the first time, a global change is due to a single species. Humankind has become a geological force.

Ongoing since 2018, this research is looking for evidence of the deep-time past emerging in the contemporary territory and the human relationship with this heritage. It depicts fossils, fossil outcrops, paleontology museums and collections, scientific installations, statues and totems, and other symbols connected with the Earth’s geological past and its life forms.

The documental/fictional nature of the project invites the observer to a journey of recontextualizing the landscape while envisioning other forms of existence as an attempt to address environmental questions that we still don't know how to respond to.

© Paula Pedrosa - Spinosaur Santana do Cariri (CE), Brazil
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Spinosaur Santana do Cariri (CE), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Giant sloth fossil Teresina (PI), Brazil
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Giant sloth fossil Teresina (PI), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Botucatu desert Araraquara (SP), Brazil
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Botucatu desert Araraquara (SP), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Nautilus sp. São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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Nautilus sp. São Paulo (SP), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Serra Vermelha Canudos (BA), Brazil
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Serra Vermelha Canudos (BA), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Fossil tree trunk Altos (PI), Brazil
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Fossil tree trunk Altos (PI), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Fossil fishes Santana do Cariri (CE), Brazil
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Fossil fishes Santana do Cariri (CE), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Fossil replica factory São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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Fossil replica factory São Paulo (SP), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Paleoartist studio Uberaba (MG), Brazil
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Paleoartist studio Uberaba (MG), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Stone house Uberaba (MG), Brazil
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Stone house Uberaba (MG), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Fiberglass prehistoric models Santana do Cariri (CE), Brazil
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Fiberglass prehistoric models Santana do Cariri (CE), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Paleontology digging site São Raimundo Nonato (PI), Brazil
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Paleontology digging site São Raimundo Nonato (PI), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi Monte Alto (SP), Brazil
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Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi Monte Alto (SP), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Paleontology lab Teresina (PI), Brazil
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Paleontology lab Teresina (PI), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Paleoartist studio Uberaba (MG), Brazil
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Paleoartist studio Uberaba (MG), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Sedimentary layers with fossil outcrop Gurinhatã (MG), Brazil
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Sedimentary layers with fossil outcrop Gurinhatã (MG), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Fossil tree trunk pieces Altos (PI), Brazil
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Fossil tree trunk pieces Altos (PI), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Fossil amphibian Teresina (PI), Brazil
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Fossil amphibian Teresina (PI), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Paleontology lab Peirópolis (MG), Brazil
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Paleontology lab Peirópolis (MG), Brazil

© Paula Pedrosa - Pterosaur replica São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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Pterosaur replica São Paulo (SP), Brazil