Marina Otero Verzier
Dr. Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and scientist. In 2022, she received Harvard’s Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. Otero has curated various exhibitions, including ‘Compulsive Desires: On Lithium Extraction and Rebellious Mountains’ at Galería Municipal do Porto (2023), ‘Work, Body, Leisure’, the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) and many others. Together with Juan Herreros and Andrés Jaque, Otero is a member of the newly founded architectural advisory board of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Madrid.
COMPULSIVE DESIRES: ON LITHIUM EXTRACTION AND REBELLIOUS MOUNTAINS