When Dust Rises, A Cloud Appears

Between matter and what cannot be grasped, things begin to shift. Institutions, images, and ways of thinking drift between material and immaterial states, taking form in the physical world—while language, imagination, and dreams gather like a cloud, at once atmospheric, infrastructural, and elusive. Dust becomes a shared motif: residue and witness, it reveals the fragile ground of what appears immaterial. It gathers what has been produced, displaced, or forgotten. Some works trace how abstract narratives settle into bodies, objects, and landscapes, while others turn toward what cannot be held in place—the fragmentary, the opaque, the unsayable. Between appearance and disappearance, dust and cloud, a field of tension unfolds, where reality is not given but continually made through extraction, circulation, and meaning-making. The exhibition has grown out of the project-bound seminar “Bodyscapes” (led by Georgia Holz & Anita Hosseini), a collaboration between art students and students of the Master programme Studies in Art and Culture.