El archivo del polvo (The Archive of Dust) articulates a mise-en-scène that speaks of the effects of war, pollution, the cultivation of raw materials, migrations, the transformation of architecture to help displaced peoples, the pain of loss... A material that has inspired the participation of artists at Naves Matadero – International Living Arts Centre such as choreographer, dancer, painter and poet Mónica Valenciano based on Elena del Rivero’s project, generating new materials of thought and performance art. El archivo del polvo helps us to understand the importance of the ephemeral, the (non)physical, the (im)material, the absence, the void, the voice and the words, the gesture and the movement that accompanies each spectator as the fundamental protagonist of a choreographic evolution in relation to the exhibited work.
Still, Dust, single channel video, 2002
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid, 2019-2020
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid 2019-2020
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid 2019-2020
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid 2019-2020
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid 2019-2020
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid, 2019-2020
Elena del Rivero: El Archivo del Polvo
Published by Caniche, 2020.
Included here are texts by Pepa Balsach, Warwick Anderson, Nada Shabout, Carmen Calvo Santesmases y Jorge García García, Mateo Feijóo, Mónica Valenciano, Luz Pichel y Ophelia Maré.
This publication was produced for the exhibition El archivo del polvo by Elena del Rivero, curated by Mateo Feijóo, presented in Naves Matadero - Centro Internacional de Artes Vivas.