In my artistic practice, I explore the hidden stories and potentials of a seemingly ordinary, yet often overlooked, medium: dust. I use dust’s texture, color, and symbolic significance to delve into themes of time, memory, environmental justice, and cultural heritage.
For my performances, paintings, digital objects, and installations, I transform this everyday material into thoughtful reflections on socio-political dynamics. By using diverse artistic mediums, I challenge viewers to reconsider established conventions and overlooked histories.
About
Line Krom is a German artist and cultural anthropologist who explores the cultural richness of dust collected from museums, archives, mines, fields and other sites of social significance. Dust serves as both a metaphorical and material substrate in her practice for investigating themes of time, memory, environmental justice, and cultural heritage.
Krom transforms these often-overlooked materials into performances, paintings, digital objects, and installations.
Artist Statement
While dust is commonly regarded as mundane, I explore it’s the material properties and deeper meanings. I use it’s texture, color, and symbolic significance to delve into themes of time, memory, environmental justice, and cultural heritage.
For my performances, paintings, digital objects, and installations, I transform this everyday material into thoughtful reflections on socio-political dynamics. By using diverse artistic mediums, I challenge viewers to reconsider established conventions and overlooked histories.