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With a series of art works ranging from sculpture, photography, documentation and video, the artist proposes to account for the origins of the industrialization of mining and the foreign capital that modernized it at the beginning of the 20th century. With this objective, Jose Ulloa Acosta (1985), investigates the mining areas where four key deposits for national production were erected in the 20th century, and also where industrial cities were located that contributed to the settlement of human capital in areas of high geographic complexity. for the time, such as Sewell, Chuquicamata, Pedro de Valdivia and María Elena, the latter the only one operating as a city and heritage of the Chemical and Mining Society.