With the first access, the work of Mark Dion is connected with the concerns of natural science and their mode of presentation, rather than with those of art in the traditional sense of the term. He uses the natural sciences and their functions – filing the specimens, classification, conservation and collection – like ready made.

In this exhibition project, Mark Dion highlights – by using scientific methods which we think we know, but forget continuously – all life and memory hidden in so little ground, so close to us: One meter of land, excavation of a discharge.