© Giulio Favotto, “Ritratti”, Alice Ahad, 2020
STATEMENT
The research investigates the cultural genealogy of dust as an open, active and collective matter. Through installations, visual devices, and interdisciplinary practices, we examine dust as a living archive, a living presence, and a symbolic form capable of challenging hierarchies, languages, perception, and systems of classification.
Dust is a concept and a structure, the Plastic Memory of the world and the Aesthetics of Immortality: a heterogeneous material, where biological, historical, political, marginal, and hybrid traces coexist.
Our practice develops through posthuman, postcolonial, and anarcheological perspectives, imagining dust as a diffuse, porous, and decentered ecological environment. Not as a mere residue, but as a possibility for rethinking how we inhabit the world and for constructing new relationships between bodies, memories, and territories.
MANIFESTO
Dust is a result that manifests the process. Dust is a loud, silent manifesto that introduces new behaviors, patterns that aim to reformat the way people live and experience the world.
Dust is a new ecological approach to perceiving life, it is a post-human space where language is defeated and hierarchy falls.
Dust is an environment for encounter and discussion.
Dust is a new symbolic form, a heterogeneous and post-human and post-colonial material to learn from.
Dust is the place where time collapses into a temporal extension and coexistence.
Dust is a stratified place because it is simultaneously a collection of fragments, a material, a place, a garden and a paradise.
Dust is an extensional World made of World that shows the World.
Dust is a narrative support that floats and expands.
Dust is no orientation, only simply a whole.
Materials and articles_2018-2026
2026
Geografia e memoria della polvere: https://riviereart.it/geografia-e-memoria-della-polvere-alice-mestriner-e-ahad-moslemi/
2025
Making Kin II: Plants” XENOFICTION a project by Cthulhu Books, Institute for Post Natural Studies.
2024
TRACKING EXTINCTION : https://trackingextinction.com/2025/01/11/eternita-ed-estinzione-in-antropocene-si-compenetrano/
ORNITORRINCO TACHADO: Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico Publication
STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN: https://blog.smb.museum/dust-is-the-plastic-memory-of-the-world-a-conversation-with-alice-ahad/
HUMBOLDT FORUM: https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/termin/guided-tour/paradeisos-stratification-of-memory-127902/
STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN:https://www.smb.museum/online-angebote/detail/ahad-moslemi-und-alice-mestriner-paradeisos-schichten-der-erinnerung/
EUROPEAN CAPITAL CULTURE: https://www.go2025.eu/en/whats-up/events/breakfast-with-the-artists-alice-mestriner-and-ahad-moslemi
PERIPHERIAL VISIONS: https://www.peripheralvisions.eu/2024/06/24/alice-ahad-peripheral-visions/
ARTAPARTOFCULTURE: https://www.artapartofculture.net/2024/01/11/humus-alice-mestriner-e-ahad-moslemi-tessono-la-memoria-collettiva/
UNFOLDING READING: https://www.unfoldingroma.com/cultura/21089/humus-alla-conquista-di-casa-vuota/
SEGNO: https://segnonline.it/humus-alice-e-ahad/
2023
ESPOARTE: https://www.espoarte.net/arte/materialita-della-polvere-humus-di-alice-e-ahad-a-casa-vuota/
FORME UNICHE: https://formeuniche.org/alice-mestriner-e-ahad-moslemi-humus-e-il-peso-della-polvere/
Juliet Art Magazine: https://www.juliet-artmagazine.com/events/alice-mestriner-e-ahad-moslemi/
SmallZine: https://www.smallzine.it/memoriaplastica-alice-mestriner-e-ahad-moslemi/
EXIBART: https://www.exibart.com/mostre/memoriaplastica-la-mostra-di-alice-mestriner-e-ahad-moslemi-da-nami-gallery/
NAMI GALLERY: https://www.namigallery.com/2023/03/16/alice-mestriner-ahad-moslemi/
JULIET MAGAZINE: https://www.juliet-artmagazine.com/en/memoriaplastica-alice-mestriner-e-ahad-moslemi-at-nami-gallery/
IODEPOSITO: https://www.iodeposito.org/it/projects/peripheral-memories-2023/
2022
spazio SERRA: https://www.spazioserra.org/it/exhibitions/2021-2022-venerazionemutante/alice-mestriner-ahad-moslemi-materiaprima
MADE IN MIND: https://www.madeinmindmagazine.com/dust-and-words/
EXIBART: https://www.exibart.com/arte-contemporanea/alice-mestriner-e-ahad-moslemi-hyper-dust-a-series-of-post-human-relations-depositomele/
FONDAZIONE FRIULI: https://fondazionefriuli.it/media/documents/ricostruzioniprogr.pdf
OBALNE GALERIJE: https://www.obalne-galerije.si/it/next-generation-mostra-collettiva/
ESPOARTE: https://www.espoarte.net/arte/wish-you-were-here/
FORME UNICHE ANTROPOS: http://formeuniche.org/crisi-della-presenza-ernesto-de-martino/
2021
OSSERVATORIO FUTURA: https://archivio.osservatoriofutura.it/materiaprima/
Les Nouveaux Riches: https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/alice-mestriner-ahad-moslemi/
hestetika: https://hestetika.art/materiaprima-e-la-nuova-mostra-di-alice-mestriner-e-ahad-moslemi-a-spazioserra/
Walk in Studio: https://walkinstudio.it/studio-article/14180/
OPENHOUSE MILANO: https://openhousemilano.org/articolo/arte-e-architettura-un-circuito-di-ohm-artweek
OSSERVATORIO FUTURA: https://archivio.osservatoriofutura.it/mondi-pulviscolari-e-identita-frammentate/
2020
2018
MUG MAGAZINE: https://www.mugmagazine.com/art-at-lazzari-space-2018.html
GRANT:
2026 Research Fellowship Grant, DECORATOR, Università di Nova Gorica.
2025 Research Fellowship Grant, Peripherial Vision and Capital of Culture 2025, Gorizia – Nova Gorica.
2023-2024 Research Fellowship Grant, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
EXHIBITION
2026 PERIPHERIAL VISION, Curated by Chiara Isadora Artico and Marco Acri, Palazzo Paternolli, Gorizia. 2026 Reimage, Museo del confine, curated by Marco Acri and Saša Dobriči, Slovenia. Reimage, Epic Center, Curated by University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. STAUB/POLVERE, Stadt Galerie, Curated by Michaela Stolte, Brixen. COMBART, Museo della città di Livorno.
2025 RISCRIVERE IL PATRIMONIO , Il Museo Gortani, Tolmezzo, Italy. UNITA’ MULTIPLE kaj house and Manuchehre Sheybani Art Museum, Kashan, Iran. UNITA’ MULTIPLE, Solo Exhibition, Galleria dell’Artistico.
2024 PARADEISOS. Stratification of Memory, Ethnologisches Museum and Asian Art Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Humboldt Forum
2023 “memoriapastica”, solo exhibition, curate by Massimiliano Bastardo at NAMI Gallery, Napoli. “Sinapsi”, curated by IoDeposito, spazioMake, Udine. “Cremona drawing Art fair”, Cremona.Peripheral Memories, curated by IoDeposito, MuCa, Museum of shipbuilding museum of Mofalcone. Solo Exhibition, Casa Vuota, Roma
2022 “Wish you were here” curated by Alberto Cresoli, Bergamo. “Peripheral Memories” curated by Alessandro Senno and Chiara Isadora Artico, Udine. “Reconstructions” curated by Chiara Isadora Artico, Moggio Udinese. “Entropia” curated by Skolè, Olmi. “AN_THRO_POS Search for a material etymology (im)possible” curated by Cosimo Ferrigolo and Oscar Valenzin at METAFORTE. “Ladispolaneamente Festival of Containing Art” curated by Elisa Selli and Eleonora Gioia Franceschini, Rome. “About 7 billion years” curated by INNESTO.SPAZIDIRICERCA. “HYPER DUST a series of posthuman relations” curated by Maria Grazia Piccirillo and Daniel Dolci at depositomele, solo exhibition,Milan.
2021 “Albero a Gomiti”, curated by Chiara Isadora Artico at Galleria Elena Cantori, Trieste. “ATTO I”, curated by Via Gulli 31, Torino. “materiaprima”, at spazioSERRA. Fondazione Francesco FABBRI.
2020 Final exhibition residency program, Torre Medioevale, Tarvisio. 2020, “Through Time, Through Space”, MUSPA, Bologna.
2019 “PERIPHERAL MEMORIES”, curated by iodeposito and Alessandro Senno, Ex Caserma Polmare, Trieste. MICRO, Air Gallery, Manchester. Invasion and Go Back, curated by Fiorella Landolfo, MACAO, Milan. Hernandez Gallery, Milan. Public#Intimacy, B#S Gallery, Treviso. Assenza|Presenza, Palazzo Malmignati, Rovigo. Combat Prize, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori – Fortezza Nuova Sala Degli Archi, Livorno. ‘FRONTAL INFLAMMATION’, M.O.N.A – Museum of New Media, Cologna Veneta, Verona.
2018 “di-monologue’’, MODULAR SPACE, Villorba.
“Identity Ineraction’’, Villa Memo Giordani, Quinto di Treviso. Saba Gallery, Tehran, Iran. STILL LIFE, B#S Gallery Treviso.
2017 Performer in “Body and Soul’’ for the artist ORLAN at Palazzo Pisani, Venice. “Identity in Process’’, Spazio Lazzari. “Echoes and Horizons’, Melina Mercouri Hall, Hydra Island, Greece
2016 Project “Pliè’’, Universitad de Vigo. International nomad project.
ART FAIR
2025 “Design Art Week”, Nova Goriza
2023 “Cremona Drawing Art Fair”, Cremona
2018 “Artverona”, Art Fair, Verona, with IoDeposito.
ARTIST TALK
2026 Stratification of Memories, University of Nova Gorica. 2025 Artist Talk, Sheybani Museum, Kashan. 2024 Artist Talk at Venice Biennial 60, 2023-2024 Presentation and Exhibition at Humboldt Forum, Berlin. 2023 Speakers at EU Parliament for the project Come2art, Bruxelles. Interview RadioRai 2022 Speech at the University of Dortmund, 2022 Moggio Udinese ‘Reconstructions’. Primavera, Skolè.
2021 Artist Talk, Rah Residency, Theran. 2020 Conversations Between Generations with Fabrizio Plessi. 2019 Jaleh Gallery, in collaboration with RAH Art Residency and DAH Theatre, Tehran. 2016 “A Continuous State of Time”, 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Nigerian Pavilion with Ola-Dele Kuku, Venice Biennale.
RESIDENCY
2026 Stratification of Memories, Decorator Project and University of Nova Gorica. 2025 Artistic research grant Peripheria-Visions within the frame of GO!BORDERLESS Nova Gorica Capital of Culture, Interreg ITA-SLO. Vayu Residency, Kashan, Iran. Lavander Labels, Museo Etnologico, Tolmezzo. 2024-2023 Discovery the West, Ethnologisches Museum and Asian Art Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Humboldt Forum. 2024 CoMuse-The collaborative Museum at Künstlerhaus BETHANIEN, Berlin. 2023 Molino Moras, Iodeposito. 2021-2022 Peripheral Memories, Iodeposito, Palmanova. 2021 Rah Residency, Tehran, Iran. 2020-2019 Program: Rebuilding, 6th B#S War, Iodeposito, Tarvisio.
PREMI
2019 Finalists for the COMBATPRIZE, 10th edition. 2021 Finalists for the Francesco Fabbri Prize. 2024 Finalists for the FREGELLAE Prize for Small Sculptures, 8th edition. 2026 Finalists Combart Prize.