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EVENT DESCRIPTION
The goal of this exhibition is to create a contemplative space where art serves as a refuge from collective despair. The exhibition features 31 works by 8 artists from China, Israel, Peru, Iran, France, and Singapore, spanning a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, video, and mixed media.
Each artwork in the exhibition primarily utilizes natural materials, from minerals, dust, soil to ice and fossils. The artists juxtapose the slow, 4.6-billion-year geological transformation with the rapid and often chaotic changes in technology, society, and politics. The echoes of “deep time” may offer solace to our fatigue and sense of loss in today’s world.
The word “Dust” in the exhibition title refers to the basic components of all matter, while “Children of Dust” draws from a well-known theory that nearly all the elements in the human body were forged in stars. In other words, you, me, people of different races and cultures, the land beneath our feet, the mountains outside the window, and the dust, soil, stones, ice, and metal used in the artworks are all fragments of a vast cosmic past. We are all children of dust.
