DUST

13.04.2012 - 15.07.2012

LABORATORIA Art&Science Space, Moskva / Rossiya

ABOUT THE PROJECT:
On 12th of April, the Cosmonautics Day, in LABORATORIA Art&Science Space there will be opened the «DUST». exhibition. The curators have gathered the works connected to dust of different kinds – cosmic, electronic, botanical and even physiological.

Object in focus of the exhibition, – the dust –is given in our perception in two notions: dust as a kind of «building material« from which the universe is born: space dust turns into stars and planets, pollen fertilises a flower and produces a seed of a new plant....
Second notion is of dust as a metaphor of destruction, a sign of the past; the track of destruction of the material. But in any case, we are speaking about the life circulation.

We have invited Austrian and Russian artists, who deal with dust in their works. Also in the framework of preparation of the exhbition, the discussion program was organised, in which took part astrophysicists, physicists, botanists. The scientists revealed the results of their “dusty” work to the artists. These meetings have become the impulse for creation of new collaborative projects.

[Quelle: http://newlaboratoria.ru]