Wearing Matter, Carrying Time, 2026 | wearables, installation, analog photography
A sculptural installation bringing together wearable forms, natural materials, industrial remnants, and photographic traces shaped through travel, field research, and manual processes, rooted in mining landscapes and industrial histories across Greece. Moving between bodily intimacy and extraction, the installation unfolds through structures where matter is carried, suspended, concealed, and transformed, forming a shifting environment between body, industry, and geology.
PARΩΝ | galena, found fir, handcarved | ~155cm x Ø 15cm
PARΩΝ is carved from a fir beam recovered from the former galena mines of Lavrio, where timbers like this once supported the underground network of tunnels. The title is a play on both the name of the mine and the Greek word παρών ("present"), suggesting both physical presence and the persistence of material memory. Two pieces of galena inhabit the work: one suspended above, reflecting the light, and another carved into the shape of a tongue, placed within a cavity reminiscent of the mine's passages. The tongue recalls the metallic taste of blood, connecting the material of the mine to an embodied experience.
Carriers A–C | wearables, analog photsography, bauxite, slag, galena
Developed as part of Wearing Matter, Carrying Time, Carriers A–C are wearable structures made to carry materials connected to mining landscapes and industrial histories in Greece, extending the act of carrying directly onto the body. Carrier A holds slag, a residue of the historical processing of galena that remains scattered across the former mining landscape of Lavrio; Carrier B carries bauxite from Amfissa, where it is actively extracted for aluminium production; and Carrier C carries galena, the lead sulphide ore historically mined in Lavrio for lead and, from silver-bearing ores, silver. Shaped respectively around the torso, along the spine, and across the arm, the works bring these materials into physical contact with the body and are photographed within the landscapes from which they originate.
