| Keller’s new commission has collected the dust from several museums
using a vacuum cleaner. This dust is like material memory from
secular-sacred spaces. Keller transplants the dust into the pristine, white
environment of the Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, and literally ‘dustifies’ a
number of the works in the Can Buildings Curate exhibition. By doing so,
he not only evokes Duchamp’s ‘dust breeding’, but offers an intervention
in the commercial gallery space that is simultaneously invisible and
weighted by institutional history. Even as the dust disappears, Keller’s
authorship will persist. |
