The dust carried in air is the subject of the installation’s two-channel video, which collapses two perspectives from Ögel’s apartment, underlining a public-private dichotomy inside one’s living quarters. The left frame shows her living room, and on the right is her bedroom. There are plants in the first; drawn curtains represent the second. As the sun illuminates both rooms from different angles, the video’s composition produces the illusion of dust traveling from one frame to the other. It magnifies and glorifies the unseen.
An illustration titled Soul of Man from the 1665 edition of John Comenius’s Orbis sensualium pictus (The Visible World in Pictures), arguably the first children’s picture book ever published, is displayed as a photographic slide. Comenius’s combination of the biblical and anatomical seems fitting, as the dotted figure echoes Ögel’s belief in the human soul’s dustlike composition, similarly fleeting and formative.