Solo exhibition
Dust Is Dust
尘归尘
Foreword to Dust Is Dust
Li AideThe limited CPU:798 space is filled with tension and mystery. Dust Is Dust challenges the human longing for limits; dust photographed through an electron microscope presents a reality beyond naked vision—the unseen dimly exists, while the visible may not be real.
The work extends the artist’s scepticism toward history in The Moon Landing Program, condensing science, history, belief and humanity into an experience where the cosmic macro-scale overlaps with microscopic dust.
Works and projects
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Dust collected from the artist’s home is enlarged roughly 300,000 times and projected onto rotating water. Image and water counter-rotate until they appear to reach equilibrium.
Video; 3′27″; dimensions variableDust Is Dust 01–07
2008
Seven microphotographs turn dust invisible to the naked eye into surfaces resembling desolate celestial bodies.
Photographic paper; each 180 × 120 cmDust Is Dust Crystal Ball
2008
Dust is sealed inside a transparent resin sphere, compressing microscopic reality, divination and an unknowable future into a handheld scale.
Crystal resin and dust; 8 cm diameterInstallation views
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