*The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.

*We sliced off the top of its moon and scrawled our names into black sand. With numbers, we traced the orbits of shadows and invented clocks and nights. Things were bordered, released, engraved, discharmed. Animals were in heat. We did it through violent means in the name of discovery, for our god, Science. Land became territory, an apple to be cored. We stuck a flag in it.



finetoothcomb presents a series of talismans, utensils and figures, unearthed from a post-apocalyptic realm. These artefacts have been meticulously cleaned and then ordered carefully into a display.


Archeologists and anthropologists have interpreted the objects to imagine the lives of this past civilisation. To piece together this world’s ways of being, their new meanings enmeshed with existing values and knowledge systems.


We invite you, then, to explore this curious collection of relics. Here you’ll find maps of subterranean cities and subconscious worlds. Love tokens melted like magma, musical instruments spun from lace. You’ll find masks, maquettes, jewellery, and tools.


In the centre of the museum you will find a diorama - a model of the site of discovery. It is made of earth. Historically, this term referred both to a skin of soil and an inhabitable planet. The diorama contains models and fragments of technologies that evolved at an unprecedentedly accelerated rate during the final epoch of this world’s timeline.


A rock, a cassette tape, a piece of driftwood 
a car bumper, a heap of trash
all are equally fertile objects
for a conception of the world.


All artefact is a tale of desire