You Belong Elsewhere
You Belong Elsewhere, exhibition view, St.Gallen, 2024
You Belong Elsewhere, exhibition view. St.Gallen, 2024
You Belong Elsewhere
2,093g of captured Sahara dust and sand (130 probes)
910cm x 484cm
In February 2023, vast clouds of Sahara dust turned Europe’s skies orange, making the air suddenly visible. Similar moments, like Chernobyl’s radioactive fallout in 1986 or the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, have temporarily heightened our understanding of global interconnectedness, refining our perception of distances, and expanding worldly comprehension.
Melting down borders through an almost neurotic search for origin and belonging, You Belong Elsewhere brings origin to a stateless medium. The processes involving the movement of substances or climatic changes occur on scales and within timeframes that often defy human comprehension, pushing against the mental limits through which humans can relate their actions to these scales. An artificial desert floor is created, as if a sandstorm has swept through the space, instigating both a tangible and conceptual transformation of the ground soil.