living archive

Απουσία / Απ’ ουσία

traces of the work

Created especially for:
FrontPage: Next 2025
Melina Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

The installation was conceived for FrontPage: Next as a reading corner where absence became the primary material.

Visitors were invited to read, look, photograph, and participate. The work unfolded through their actions.

Installation view
FrontPage: Next, Melina Cultural Centre, Athens, 2025

Online continuation:

During the exhibition, visitors could upload photographs and comments through a QR code placed inside the installation.

The submissions were edited and published in real time, extending the work beyond the exhibition space.

Proofs of Presence — Living Archive

Press and documentation:

ONE live (YouTube) «Κεντρικό Δελτίο Ειδήσεων», 02.05.2025

Artviews

Festival Miden

LIFO

Interview with curators Axianews, 18.05.2025:

Exhibition catalogue :

The FrontPage:Next project was included in the rankin of the best exhibitions of 2025 in Athens:

Back to the work

Απουσία / Απ’ ουσία

2025, Happening

2025

installation, participatory action, living archive

A reading corner appears ordinary.

A table.
A chair.
A stack of newspapers.

Something is missing.

But the newspapers cannot be read.

Parts of the text are missing.
Images disappear.
Words are cut away.

The absence is not empty.

It becomes a space where meaning is reconstructed.

Words disappear.
Images disappear.

The empty spaces begin to speak.

What disappears?

What remains?

The viewer enters the work.

Reading becomes searching.
Looking becomes interpretation.

The absence becomes visible.

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Absence becomes a space for imagination.

A place where what is missing
begins to matter.

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The work continues through absence.

The work continues through what is missing.

The work continues through participation.

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Proofs of Presence: Living Archive

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traces of the work

An Offering to the Sphinx

traces of the work

The intervention remained in the space after the action without supervision or protection.

The future of the golden apple remains unknown.

It may have been taken away, moved, preserved, damaged, or gradually destroyed by weather and time.

The work survives through photographs, video fragments, memory, and retellings.

Instagram publications and video documentation became part of the afterlife of the project.

Realized in the Zsolnay Quarter, Pécs, Hungary, 14 May 2024.

дополнительные фотографии, backstage, кадр со мной, Instagram FB screenshots, video stills, later publications, выставочные следы, process photos.