Daily Dust
1991
Denmark
Denmark collects books, newspapers, and magazines. He then shreds the material, transforms it, and invents new ways to preserve it. In doing so, the artist expresses his sense of powerlessness in the face of the overwhelming flood of information. This jar filled with paper is titled Daily Dust. It is part of a series of 150 glass jars filled with newspaper pulp. The newspapers date from the First Gulf War (1990–1991) in the Persian Gulf. The artist describes the jars of pulp as “the physical remains of war reporting.”
Details
- Plan number: C33
- Zone: Collection pavilion
- Title: Daily Dust
- Creator: Denmark
- Date: 1991
- Material: glass, metal, paper, textile
- Acquisition: donation
- Object number: MID.B.622
The life cycle of information carriers, such as books and newspapers, is central to Denmark’s work. He continually invents new ways to process them and give them a second life.
Since the 1970s, Belgian artist Denmark has been dismantling and transforming information carriers like books, newspapers, and magazines. In a ritualistic and systematic way, he silences them by stacking, cutting, folding, pressing, gluing, and screwing them down. His goal is not to destroy the printed paper, but to preserve it permanently.
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