COLLECTING DUST

Exhibition period: 26/06 – 12/07 & 04/09 – 01/10 2020

Dust is the smallest archaeological fragment. It is a floating particle measuring the passage of time while covering surfaces.

Collecting Dust as time on hold and as a void of space could exist, be observed, and get registered as evidence of forgotten memories of the city. The installation occupying the space of cross section archive puts on display the process of registering this micro-scale find together with its tools.

In the summer of 2020 cross section archive presented the exhibition Collecting Dust by its founders, visual artist Maria Lalou & architect Skafte Aymo-Boot, installing the space as a disclosure of their findings, as a vitrine of their practice and as a space becoming a document to be experienced from the crossing of Mavromichali and Isavron streets. Blending into the streetscape of Exarchia as an artwork in public space, Collecting Dust presented itself to the Athenian public, daily during the evening hours.

COLLECTING DUST by Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot

Video loop 21’, recorded in Athens September 2013 inside the concrete skeleton at Agiou Konstantinou 61 & Deligiorgi, unfinished since 1963.

MDF 180x180 cm, painted NCS S 1505-Y30, brooms, dust mask, protection glasses.

  • COLLECTING DUST

    Exhibition period: 26/06 – 12/07 & 04/09 – 01/10 2020

    Dust is the smallest archaeological fragment. It is a floating particle measuring the passage of time while covering surfaces.

    Collecting Dust as time on hold and as a void of space could exist, be observed, and get registered as evidence of forgotten memories of the city. The installation occupying the space of cross section archive puts on display the process of registering this micro-scale find together with its tools.

    In the summer of 2020 cross section archive presented the exhibition Collecting Dust by its founders, visual artist Maria Lalou & architect Skafte Aymo-Boot, installing the space as a disclosure of their findings, as a vitrine of their practice and as a space becoming a document to be experienced from the crossing of Mavromichali and Isavron streets. Blending into the streetscape of Exarchia as an artwork in public space, Collecting Dust presented itself to the Athenian public, daily during the evening hours.

    COLLECTING DUST by Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot

    Video loop 21’, recorded in Athens September 2013 inside the concrete skeleton at Agiou Konstantinou 61 & Deligiorgi, unfinished since 1963.

    MDF 180x180 cm, painted NCS S 1505-Y30, brooms, dust mask, protection glasses.