THE LARGE GREY SCULPTURE AS PART OF HUMBLE WORKS (THREE-ARTISTS SHOW WITH MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND NICO VASCHELLARI)
COLNAGHI GALLERY, LONDON, UK.
This sculpture is a result of a 10-year-long research project.
I got in touch with my former lovers.
I was interested in the spaces under their beds, and the beautiful balls and blossoms of dust that have formed there—despite the fact that I'm allergic to dust. Dust is memory, and once I collected the necessary amount of the material (it took me three years), I made an enormous dust ball. It is complemented by a list of names on the wall: some initials, some empty spaces and some full first and last names, all according to the will of the dust donors.
This is a collective memory of life, lived through the people I shared it with, be it for an hour or an entire night together in my teens or several years in recent memory.
The drawings on the wall are portraits of the beds of the dust donors with their names written and the samples of the material attached to the images.
The Large Grey Sculpture only permits temporary ownership. It comes with a life-size heavy framed photograph of the work. It will have a vial in the bottom of the image. According to the contract, at the moment of my death, the sculpture will have to be burnt along with my dead body, and a part of the ashes will be given to the owner along with the photograph to be placed inside the frame.
The Etruscan burial urn (8–6 century BC) installed near the sculpture is a quiet reminder: there is nothing more eternal than death.
