Exhibition
Jorge Otero-Pailos. The Ethics of Dust
29 Jun 2016 – 01 Sep 2016
Westminster Hall
London, United Kingdom
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Jorge Otero-Pailos explaining the methodology with which Westminster Hall's east wall was cleaned to create his work The Ethics of Dust (2016). Photograph: William Eckersley, 28 June 2016
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Jorge Otero-Pailos introducing his work The Ethics of Dust (2016) at Westminster Hall, London. Photograph: Will Eckersley, 28 June 2016
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Image: Jorge Otero-Pailos during the casting process for The Ethics of Dust (2015). Photographer: Nick Chapman
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Image: Jorge Otero-Pailos during the casting process for The Ethics of Dust (2015). Photographer: Nick Chapman
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Image: Jorge Otero-Pailos and Michael Morris during the casting process for The Ethics of Dust, 2016. Photographer: Nick Champan
Talk
Artist Talk: Jorge Otero-Pailos on The Ethics of Dust
1 Sep 2016
Event times
18:30 – 19:30 BST
Cost of entry
Free (reservation required)
Westminster Hall
Address
- Grand Committee Room (entrance via Cromwell Green)
- London
- SW1A 0AA
- United Kingdom
Event map
Jorge Otero-Pailos will give a talk on the evolution of his site-specific artwork The Ethics of Dust at Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster.
About
Tickets | Free (reservation required)
Suspended from the hall’s 28-metre high hammer-beam roof, the work is a 50-metre long translucent latex cast of the hall’s east wall, containing hundreds of years of surface pollution and dust.
The latex contains innumerable particles of dust, soot and dirt gently lifted from the wall, a special method developed for the cleaning of this UNESCO world heritage site. Otero-Pailos has previously made casts of the walls of other heritage monuments including the 14th century Doge’s Palace in Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.
Westminster Hall and the Doge’s Palace share a history that runs deep in the British and European cultural consciousness: both were seats of governments ruling vast naval empires, threatened with demolition by over-enthusiastic classical architects (Andrea Palladio and Sir John Soane), and ultimately saved by restorations in the original Gothic style.
Jorge Otero-Pailos (b. 1971, Madrid, Spain) works at the intersection of art, architecture and preservation. He is Associate Professor and Director of Historic Preservation at Columbia University. His work has been exhibited at major museums, festivals, galleries and foundations, notably, the 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy, the V&A, London and the Louis Vuitton Galerie Museum.
