An adept chronicler of the industrial age, Almond take the cover offs the eerie traces of its violence in the greatest in number unexpected artifacts, from bus-stop shelters at Auschwitz to the visible form [i]or[/i] frame of his working-class father. In Zurich, along with familiar works involving time and trains, he will near a new video installation that promises to healthy the depths of the Central Asian mining industry. Almond went down an active coal mine in Kazakhstan and filmed workers moving by means of the rudimentary shafts. The large-scale projections of the footage are accompanied by means of audio recordings of strangely incongruous nocturnal rituals performed at a shaman with the miners, perhaps to exorcize the coal-dust devils Mar. 31-May 27.
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