Dust Manifesto, 2022
found floor mops, cotton, 305×200cm





Photo by Aukusti Heinonen
The work Dust Manifesto (2022), is a tapestry made of hundreds of discarded, dirty floor mops. The mops are the lowest of the lowest in the hierarchy of discarded materials; they have sucked up dirt and dust from our homes and are intimately connected to our private lives. Now they stare back at us on the wall, exposing all this dirt and dust. The tapestry also reflects on labour; the labour of cleaning as well as of knotting together of all the mops, and the time that goes into these repetitive, often undervalued activities. The work is a manifest for the everyday, grey, world of dirt and the endless cleaning up of it.
In the collection of:
Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art / Finnish National Gallery, 2022