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	Five heaps of dust sent from different family members are laid on the floor with gold text – a trace of their experiences. Dust is powerful matter through which to describe the actuality of myself being in a place, of being here and not there (i.e., in a different place to people I feel strongly about). Acknowledging that technology mitigates the idea of physical and temporal distance, I am determined to feel being in my place as much as possible. The claim to materiality relates to the dissatisfaction of simulation, offering the material quality of experiences. Manipulating and recreating my brother’s matter allows me to visually and imaginatively linger on it, somehow inhabiting it. The reference to Wolfgang Laib’s work ‘The Five Mountains Not to Climb On’ is an attempt to emphasize the preciousness of dust as matter. For me it is precisely the materiality of dust – an infinite collection of evidence from a person’s life in another place – that makes it so precious. Like our memory of past experiences, these heaps of dust are not solid permanent matter but matter in a state of precariousness. www.inesazagra.net
		Untitled (2007)
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