éléonore piret




  1. where dust gathers
  2. moment
  3. phosphène
  4. le septième jour - postritual reflexion
  5. portraits
  6. blueprint for a third body
  7. altamira
  8. je n’ai pris au tragique que le bonheur
  9. ni dieu ni maître
  10. genesis

where dust gathers

where dust gathers is a research-based installation project that questions the role of the museum as both site of accumulation and apparatus of erasure. Developed in response to the transformation of the former Citroën factory in Brussels into the new Centre Pompidou, the work engages critically with the processes by which cultural institutions overwrite industrial, social, and colonial histories under the guise of urban renewal. It investigates how narratives of progress - whether artistic, architectural, or political - are constructed through mechanisms of exclusion and aestheticisation.

Drawing from the legacy of institutional critique and informed by postcolonial and feminist thought, the project positions itself at the edge of the museum’s symbolic and physical territory. It questions the authority of the white cube and its promises of neutrality, instead foregrounding liminality, opacity, and the unstable status of the art object. Through gestures that are materially fragile and spatially marginal, the project examines what it means to work from the margins - not simply as a place of displacement, but as a methodology of resistance.

where dust gathers foregrounds the political economy of visibility: who or what becomes legible within institutional space, and under what conditions? Rather than offering a direct counter-narrative, the work unfolds as a series of dissonances - temporal, material, and discursive - that unsettle the museum’s promise of coherence. By confronting the viewer with scaled-up photographic distortions, obstructed surfaces, and fragmentary forms, the installation questions the logic of spectacle and insists on slowness, doubt, and partial presence.

Espace Vanderborght, Brussels, Belgium
2025 
Group jury exhibition Royal Academy of Arts Brussels

Print on satin paper 
700 x 110 cm

Prints on matt Hahnemühle paper behind frosted glass
140 x 80 cm 
60 x 40 cm

Collected materials, concrete, rusted metal, broken glass, plastic, wood, dust, paper, bird cage...
Assemblages and sculptural installations