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

Kavalloti Felice 7, Makrygianni, 117 42 Athens Attica