‘Escavadora’ is the Portuguese word for ‘excavator,’ a feminine noun that embodies the power and strength of a machine. In this book, Rita Lino uses her own body as a tool for exploration, treating it as a vessel for making larger statements. The photographs were taken in caves and mines, where the body acts as the explorer, delving into depths where vision is obscured and past and future converge.

• The book explores the process of excavation as both burial and discovery.
• Rita Lino’s work often uses her body as a central theme.
• The body is presented as a tool for exploration in this work.
• Photography took place in caves and mines.
• The concept explores the encumbered nature of vision and the merging of past and future.