dimensions variable
2025
wood, gesso, iron oxide, acrylic, cotton workcoats, textile dust, reclaimed textiles, thread
Installed at Layer House, Kranj, for BIEN 2025.
In his introduction to the biennial’s theme of Zrak/The Air, curator Lovro Ivančić described how BIEN 2025 follows ‘the movements of air as both medium and metaphor, as element and archive, as a site of spiritual, political, industrial, and sensory transformation. Air is a witness to the histories of labour, dust, and human stories.’
As residue, dust is a marker of time and happening that blurs the boundaries between the past and present, and between inside and outside. Exhibited at Layer House for ‘The Air’ BIEN 2025, reconstituted cloth made from textile dust hangs from structures coated with iron oxide, the dust once said to have stained the city of Jesenice, one of BIEN’s seven sites. Employing papermaking processes to reform the sweepings of factory floors and sewing machines, carpet shavings, a discarded nurse’s uniform, and the white cotton work coats of conservation, the work explores ideas of invisible labour, lost industry, care and value. ‘Still falling, inside today’ draws from a view of terracotta roof tiles designed to hold frozen air particles outside – textile particles reconfigured like flock wallpaper and a string of beads draped like drops of snow that might melt in the orange light. The remains of the remains meld interior and exterior. Sky meets floor.