ADN Galeria presents Virtual cleaning service for art museums and institutions. The exhibition proposes a collective performative intervention in which Adrián Melis brings together artists and precarious workers from Latin American and African communities to offer a “virtual cleaning service” to modern and contemporary art museums, especially those with colonial legacies. This action transforms a routine gesture into a critical intervention, as those who usually occupy marginal positions take control of virtual spaces, turning cleaning into a form of resistance and a challenge to power structures in art.
Virtual cleaning service for art museums and institutions (2025) s is a performative and collaborative project that combines symbolic action, institutional critique, and collective labor. Through it, Adrián Melis brings together a team of artists and workers in precarious situations —mainly from Latin America and Africa— to offer a “virtual cleaning” service to modern and contemporary art museums in Europe and the United States, especially those with historical ties to colonialism and cultural appropriation.
Using the virtual tours available on the websites of these institutions, the participants “enter” the digital galleries and transform the computer cursor into cleaning tools —brooms, vacuum cleaners, industrial mops— to carry out real-time cleaning actions within the virtual exhibition spaces.
