The Tunnels Do Not Echo, 2024
Living Room 
Athens

Curated by: Auðunn Kvaran

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The space might resemble a mourning environment, incorporating elements of ancient Greek Asclepius within conditions shaped by resource extraction and environmental illness. As a site of depletion, solastalgia treatment structures emerge from former mining landscapes, clinging to the remnants of once-abundant deposits.

Through on-site engagement, the process involves entering the mined landscape, working directly with its materials, and taking their imprints, later transferred into the gallery space as a wall-based composition.

The video combines archival materials from the Milos Mining Museum with on-site footage and interactions between the body and minerals, intertwining the memory of extraction and speculations about an extracted future.

Minerals, engaging in a dialogue, enter into an intimate, quasi-therapeutic exchange. They serve both as a source of knowledge and a healing agent, forming a speculative encounter between past, present, and future, shaped by AI-generated narratives.

Photos by Frank Holbein and Iza Koczanowska