Douglas Mandry: A Distant Smell of Dust

Douglas Mandry: A Distant Smell of DustA Distant Smell of Dust by Douglas Mandry centers on a selection of deteriorated autochromes from Les Archives de la Plante, a pioneering early 20th century photographic archive commissioned by Albert Kahn to visually document global diversity. Mandrys reinterpretation of these historical images is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges fable On Rigor in Science, which describes an empire where cartography becomes so exact that only a map on the same scale as

With the kind support of Manor

by Katalin Deér and Julia Weber

intelligent organization

With a focus on the different shapes and surfaces of the individual stones

bound together by frontal wire stitching

Which ­instructions should be transferred—which white spaces occupied

a score made up of words and ­images: “Listen to an empty page” or “Crumple a sheet of paper” are open instructions for ­action

Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur

She draws connections between his approach and movements such as American Abstract Expressionism

in the age of social media

Swiss Arts Council

from June 7 to August 18