A Handful of Dust
THIS EXHIBITION IS A SPECULATIVE HISTORY OF THE LAST CENTURY, TAKING DUST AS ITS MOTIF.
Dust - unwanted, inevitable, destructive 鈥� is the great suppressed substance of the modern age. The world of order and hygiene attempts to banish dust yet it will always return.
The exhibition takes as its starting point two significant events that happened in Europe in October 1922. In the Parisian journal Litt茅rature, Man Ray published his photograph of dust gathering on the surface of Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 Large Glass (where it was title 鈥榁ue Prise en Aeroplane鈥�); and in the London journal The Cirterion TS Eliot published his modernist masterwork The Waste Land containing the immortal lines:
鈥楢ND I WILL SHOW YOU SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM EITHER
YOUR SHADOW AT MORNING STRIDING BEHIND YOU
OR YOUR SHADOW AT EVENING RISING TO MEET YOU;
I WILL SHOW YOU FEAR IN A HANDFUL OF DUST.鈥� T.S. ELIOT
From this beginning the exhibition takes in aerial photography, forensic photography, abstractions of landscapes, ruins, postcards and press photos of the American dust storms, artists鈥� videos, film clips, documentary photography and site specific works, featuring artists like Man Ray, John Divola, Sophie Ristelhueber, Walker Evans, Mona Kuhn, Aaron Siskind, Gerhard Richter, Xavier Ribas, Nick Waplington, Eva Stenram, Georges Bataille, Jeff Wall, among others.
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THIS EXHIBITION IS A SPECULATIVE HISTORY OF THE LAST CENTURY, TAKING DUST AS ITS MOTIF.
Dust - unwanted, inevitable, destructive 鈥� is the great suppressed substance of the modern age. The world of order and hygiene attempts to banish dust yet it will always return.
The exhibition takes as its starting point two significant events that happened in Europe in October 1922. In the Parisian journal Litt茅rature, Man Ray published his photograph of dust gathering on the surface of Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 Large Glass (where it was title 鈥榁ue Prise en Aeroplane鈥�); and in the London journal The Cirterion TS Eliot published his modernist masterwork The Waste Land containing the immortal lines:
鈥楢ND I WILL SHOW YOU SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM EITHER
YOUR SHADOW AT MORNING STRIDING BEHIND YOU
OR YOUR SHADOW AT EVENING RISING TO MEET YOU;
I WILL SHOW YOU FEAR IN A HANDFUL OF DUST.鈥� T.S. ELIOT
From this beginning the exhibition takes in aerial photography, forensic photography, abstractions of landscapes, ruins, postcards and press photos of the American dust storms, artists鈥� videos, film clips, documentary photography and site specific works, featuring artists like Man Ray, John Divola, Sophie Ristelhueber, Walker Evans, Mona Kuhn, Aaron Siskind, Gerhard Richter, Xavier Ribas, Nick Waplington, Eva Stenram, Georges Bataille, Jeff Wall, among others.
Artists on show
- Aaron Siskind
- Alain Resnais
- Brassaï
- Bruce Nauman
- Charles Henri Ford
- David Gould
- Ed Ruscha
- Edward Weston
- Eva Stenram
- Frederick Sommer
- Georges Bataille
- Gerhard Richter
- Giorgio Sommer
- Jaques-André Boiffard
- Jeff Mermelstein
- Jeff Wall
- John Divola
- John Gerrard
- Kirk Palmer
- Laure Albin-Guillot
- Louise Oates
- Man Ray
- Marcel Duchamp
- Mona Kuhn
- Nick Waplington
- Robert Burley
- Robert Filliou
- Robert Lebel
- Rut Blees Luxemburg
- Shomei Tomatsu
- Sophie Ristelhueber
- Tereza Zelenkova
- Walker Evans
- William Allen
- Wols
- Xavier Ribas
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