Catherine Bertola

By working with site specific installation and ideas of manual labor, Bertola draws attention to aspects of the space that we normally would try to pretend are not there. Bertola meticulously collects dust from these specific sites and manipulates it into more permanent sculpture pieces that emulate patterns of decor taken from the site.  Sometimes she just makes patterns with the dust and lets everyone walk through it. Bertola draws attention to a substance that we try to rid our environments of, yet its very substance is made up of little bits of all the people who go through that environment; dust is a collective waste and highly symbolic. Here is a link to her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1637_outoftheordinary/artists_detail.php?artistTag=bertola

"after the fact"


image from an installation