![Still, self-portrait as a hazmat expert, 2002](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1560999668993-POLNTNC6VOYNDX4M2KUM/Screenshot+2019-06-19+22.51.50.png)
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](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1620311638575-52W2V5SAVD69NYLA0X5E/2002_Dust_VideoStill_Copyright.jpg)
Still, Dust, single channel video, 2002
![Installation Views with CHANT, 2006 and Nu descendant un escalier, 2002](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579041876423-H8Z638ULRR3X4OPZF6YO/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1210.jpg)
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid, 2019-2020
![Installation views with CHANT, 2006 and the archive of over 3,000 photographs of the fragments of papers Elena collected from the floors of her studio-home post 9/11](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579186348045-WH2MUFZDQU48WCF8NFRH/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1360.jpg)
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid 2019-2020
![Close up CHANT, 2006](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579186026729-HJ25LHBDDW1P0ZG2ZM4J/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1213.jpg)
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid 2019-2020
![An archive of over 3,000 photographs of the fragments of papers that Elena collected from the floors of her studio-home, post 9/11](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579186243003-6CWHXDRJ0AS374HAL0XA/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1123.jpg)
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid 2019-2020
![Installation views of a fraction of the over 1000 hours of video filmed by Elena inside and outside her studio home post 9/11](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579186511253-XLB9TPRPIN02P68PW85B/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1343.jpg)
An Archive of Dust, Naves Matadero, Madrid 2019-2020
![Dust collected by Elena around her studio-home, post 9/11](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579187287125-65FQF3F9GI6TJYZHSNYF/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1391.jpg)
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.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1626711369339-71SCUZD6K1XQ6RAF3400/Cover_Archivo_del_Polvo_Archive_of+Dust.png)
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.
![Still, self-portrait as a hazmat expert, 2002](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1560999668993-POLNTNC6VOYNDX4M2KUM/Screenshot+2019-06-19+22.51.50.png)
![Still, Dust, single channel video, 2002](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1620311638575-52W2V5SAVD69NYLA0X5E/2002_Dust_VideoStill_Copyright.jpg)
![Installation Views with CHANT, 2006 and Nu descendant un escalier, 2002](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579041876423-H8Z638ULRR3X4OPZF6YO/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1210.jpg)
![Installation views with CHANT, 2006 and the archive of over 3,000 photographs of the fragments of papers Elena collected from the floors of her studio-home post 9/11](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579186348045-WH2MUFZDQU48WCF8NFRH/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1360.jpg)
![Close up CHANT, 2006](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579186026729-HJ25LHBDDW1P0ZG2ZM4J/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1213.jpg)
![An archive of over 3,000 photographs of the fragments of papers that Elena collected from the floors of her studio-home, post 9/11](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579186243003-6CWHXDRJ0AS374HAL0XA/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1123.jpg)
![Installation views of a fraction of the over 1000 hours of video filmed by Elena inside and outside her studio home post 9/11](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579186511253-XLB9TPRPIN02P68PW85B/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1343.jpg)
![Dust collected by Elena around her studio-home, post 9/11](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1579187287125-65FQF3F9GI6TJYZHSNYF/ELENA+DEL+RIVERO_MATADERO_10_DICIEMBRE_2019_MG_1391.jpg)
![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.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5747108555598646327dd4f6/1626711369339-71SCUZD6K1XQ6RAF3400/Cover_Archivo_del_Polvo_Archive_of+Dust.png)
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.