It doesn’t matter if you frequent the art museum or are encountering it for the first time—the objects there will confront you with the same set of questions.
What is this? Why choose these materials? Why create this at all? And, if you’re lucky, why does this make me feel this way?
Earth’s Winding-Sheet, the new exhibition at the Lilley Museum of Art, takes dust, dirt and debris as its central subject. Dust may seem a surprising focus for an art exhibition. It is a substance composed of an incredibly diverse universe of detritus: eroded minerals, motes of soil, dead skin cells, specks of wood, bits of fur and hair, textile fibers, pollen and even burnt meteorite particles…