| Pó |

Dust particles are dispersed in the atmosphere having different origins. According to the classification of matter in the solid state, these particles have a diameter of less than 500 micrometers. Finding these particles accumulated in different spaces of the city as an object of study, is a fact that captures my interest, a metaphor in which a description of a complex system is formulated from the minuscule and residual. The dispersion and agglomeration of dust is part of a daily cycle present in any type of space, from urban, domestic to outdoor space; a heterogeneous distribution, governed by chaos and weather conditions. I assume these remains from the city of Lisbon as a micro sample of its different dynamics and politics. Pó (dust in Portuguese) represents an approximation to the waste from Rua Fernandes da Fonseca street located in Martim Moniz, one of the areas that concentrates the largest migrant population in the city. These particles have been collected by a portable household vacuum cleaner on the rails of the route 28E of a trolley car, a public transport of the area. Subsequently, they were stored in slides (SlideDust), which were scanned and processed as a digital image file.

The work is the result of different psychogeographic tours carried out in the city of Lisbon, it arises as a need to de-confine mechanisms of action and execution of performative pieces within my artistic research, using the city as a work object, exploring its potential. I propose a media migration with the transfer of slides to digital media for observation and analysis, similar to study methods used in the scientific method. This piece contains a direct reference to Antonieta Sosa's work "El Polvo de mi Cuarto", this relationship represents for me a link with my country of origin and I propose a migration from domestic space to outer space. The collection of the samples corresponds to a performative action carried out in the public space, in which the cleaning of dust with a vacuum cleaner assumed as a daily routine is decontextualized. In view of the chaotic nature of the dust as a residual portion, using the tram rails as guides to trace a route within the action, these guides are, in turn, receptacles for dust, allowing its massive accumulation.