Visitations is a collection of photographs from museums in Attica. It is an assemblage of images of rooms, spaces, displays, exhibits and objects. This body of work entails photographs made during museum visits from 2016 to 2021, with a small film camera and emerges out of the exploration of the region’s museums’ respective narratives, inquisitiveness about the selections, and encounters with the unexpected. Not all of the many museums of Attica are featured here, nor does this work intend to be an index of the district’s museums. However, through the process of accumulation it has become a small museum in itself; a collection of collections.

In its entirety, the work has been configured in two distinct manners. On the one hand, the complete set of photographs is displayed in the form of a large mosaic, functioning as a collection-archive, and on the other, it is fragmented into 27 structured clusters of images, each accompanied by interpretive titles. This compilation, while the outcome of a selective process, remains an open archive. Maintaining in its entirety the presence of order and chaos simultaneously, it invites a remodeling through the eyes of the viewer.

The project explores questions of categorization, classification and representation through revision and response, and constitutes a proposal which remains open to other reconstructions; an open field of possibilities. Co-inhabiting a common and indefinite spatial-temporal context, the photographed museum spaces and exhibits – of various and lost uses, and of distinct historical eras and importance, aesthetic values and scientific-museal classifications – converse and interact in different modalities. The real and the imaginary merge, giving rise to new narratives, memories, hauntings and apparitions, orders and multiplicities.

The Kastelana Photography Center is currently hosting a curated selection of the grouped images.

28 June 2025 - 27 July 2025

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Yannis Hadjiaslanis: VISITATIONS