On the schedule of the new patrol, “Mina Al-Basal area in Alexandria” is visited by crowds. Fixed schedules every day where waves of workers flow from everywhere towards the same destination, which is the cotton pressing factories. An entire life pulsates in the area during the shift change times, minutes that separate each shift from another, but the walls yearn for the workers’ camaraderie and await their waves. Different names and similar faces work like a restless beehive.

Suddenly, the flow of workers stopped. Minutes turned into years and an endless wait in the hope of return, but everything had ended. The factory walls remained waiting for their owners’ return, but it was a hopeless wait as the dust enveloped everything in layers that increased in thickness as the wait prolonged.

“The Dust of time” is an experience that focuses on preserving collective memory through stories and memories of the Mina Al-Basal factories in Alexandria.

The exhibition continues until August 03, 2023