Ghost Sensations / Machine Dreams

The Nordic Library at Athens invites you to the exhibition Ghost Sensations / Machine Dreams, a photographic intervention by Andrew Hazewinkel into the collection of the Nordic Library at Athens, on view from 20 May to 18 June 2025.

Presented for the first time in Greece, this body of work, captured on film in the hours before dawn during the movement restrictions of the recent pandemic, brings something unanticipated to the entanglement between photography and archaeology. The images present us spectral versions of some of this city’s most known ghosts as they stood deserted, in stoic silence, reminding us of our own ephemerality. Hazewinkel’s method of installing the works into the library stacks, whereby unseen books support each image, plays conceptually with the longstanding academic axiom, that images are deployed in the service of text. Here it is the very weight of books that ingeniously supports the image.

Hazewinkel’s artistic practice is defined by a melding of activities in the expanded field of lens-based practice, sculptural processes (typically casting), photographic-archive research and museum collection engagements. His artistic practice and  scholarly research  revolve around the body, materials and remembering; often in response to the confluence of cognitive science and archaeological theory – Material Engagement Theory. He has presented solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Slovenia, Belgium and Greece. He holds a PhD from The University of Sydney. He is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute at Athens.

Exhibition opening & reception: Tuesday 20 May 2025 at 19:00

Warmly welcome!

Attached file: Invitation