How Does A Vacuum Cleaner Work
Evolving wall drawing that brings together utterly different phenomena around dust. Through a holistic perspective, it suggests connections between the micro and macro journeys of dust across scales from a box to a galaxy.
Kerem Ozan Bayraktar’s projects often bring together utterly different phenomena, and through approaching them from a holistic perspective, he suggests new connections between them that we would otherwise ignore.
The evolving wall drawing added information and misinformation to an already dense diagram, opening up several different layers of time and space on which the notion and characteristics of dust and vacuum cleaners could be transferred to. Considering processes in art means to shift the focus of the work from the spatial to the temporal. It means to look at the components instead of the overall entity of a work, to create detail views and expand our reception and habits of the perception of time. Viewing of art becomes a long-term project.
The words “Bits of my lover” reference the video work Rotor and highlight the fact that dust contains among parts of non-living material also pieces of humans and thus pieces of our loved ones. In dust everything and everyone is coming together in a totally equal ratio.