Dane Mitchell
British Museum Room 18 Air Sample, 2025
Stainless steel, mild steel, air
235 x 235 x 340mm
Unique
Letter to the Keeper, 2025
Giclee print, aluminium
850 x 110mm
Unique
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.1), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.2), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.3), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.4), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.5), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.6), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.7), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.8), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.9), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.10), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.11), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Archive of Dust (British Museum, Room 18, no.12), 2001 - ongoing (collected 2023, cultured 2024, printed 2025)
800mm x 800mm
Giclee print, aluminium
Edition of 3
Haydens is pleased to present Archive of Dust, Room 18, an exhibition of new work by Dane Mitchell stemming from a project the artist began in 2001, involving the ongoing collection of dust from museums and galleries around the world from which the artist cultures bacteria.
Dust contains all and everything, settling almost everywhere. It is a resident of every crevice and country and is made up of all things, both synthetic and natural. Occurring as a byproduct of all activity, it marks and attacks those zones and objects that appear inactive, defunct, resting, while simultaneously marking out the contact of an absence. Dust is a distinct paradox in the world of institutionalised history and serves as a record of all who come to visit art in its multifarious homes, for we all come from dust, and to dust we shall return.
The studious longevity of the artist’s accumulation of dust over nearly 25 years now contains samples from hundreds of institutions. For this new exhibition, the artist has focussed on dust collected in Room 18 at the British Museum, the current resting place of The Parthenon Marbles, alongside other related new work.
Accompanying the exhibition is a new text by Francesca Zappia (view in 'text' menu)