Ina Raschke
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Unsettled conditions
Installation, 2009
Office tape
Dimensions variable
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Circulation begins.
There are lines of tape on the wall, moving in a graphical way.
It seems to be a cloud waiting for something invisible.
Normally clouds release the rain, when some dust and circulation begin; without any kind of dust, the sky would be without any colors.
But this artificial cloud is waiting for dust. For the New Yorkers‘ dust, which will be collected on the sticky side of the tape.
Caught by falling. Circulations stops.
Normally every little abrasion would make the dust flow again to various places, wherever the wind will take it, but this one is still waiting.
This installation is a collector of the smallest and lightest things of everyday life. It is trying to disorder the normal arrangement and get it into a new orderliness.
After couple of months the collected dust will be sent to the artist in Germany. She will confine it in boxes, which will include a text and a photo of the original situation.
Typical house dust consists up to 90% of human skin cells, so in every box there will be a fragment of New Yorkers‘ life.
Watch the images here