laundry memorabilia
 
<<

Dust, dust from the drying machine. Dust hardly has an existence in itself. It goes unnoticed, unwanted, lingering as a denied remain of our everyday life. We make it disappear from our lives as soon as we can, yet it never stops accumulating. It becomes the witness of our everyday life. Looking at it more closely, you can start exploring the topography of everyday life, imagining its archeology, recalling and inventing countless stories. I took this evocative dust accumulation as a point of departure in order to play and dis-play with free associations, juxtaposition, and framing.

Displaying implies a frame, whether the frame is a physical - material - one or not. The frame is just as important as the subject. I intend to pay equal attention to the frame as to the subject itself. A frame should evoke its subject, sometimes even more strongly than the subject does. Sometimes, the line between what is frame and what is subject is blurred. It remains ambiguous since both are equally on display. In a way, framing can be understood as juxtaposition, displaying two objects side by side, each one acting as the frame for the other. Here, all elements in turn are objects on display as well as framing objects.