We are part of a living museum. Our recent history exists only as a treasured legacy of the past, before taking on new meaning. Original artefacts that have descended through many generations with such care, are now accounted unique and valuable items; as their mass reproduction and overuse have immersed them into the remote past. Only by mere luck are they preserved until today.

It is not by chance that the exhibition will be hosted in a historical building located on Vassilikis Street in the center of Athens. The original 1920’s private estate designed and built by Ernst Ziller in 1893, has adapted to re-use, serving over the years, multiple purposes, both commercial and private. It has been marked in the collective memory of the Athenians as the renowned "Park Hotel" in the 1920’s, later as a Brazilian textile company, and today houses the offices of the Hellas Group.

Our identity, memory and intergenerational links to the past, motivate 8 visual artists to take on the role of contemporary archaeologists and redefine everyday elements of our modern history. Their quest will reveal that true value lies in the process of discovery and revelation. Within a hidden, secretive setting, surface unimaginable yet genuine secrets.

Ianthi Aggelioglou, Maria Louiza Biri, Eva Marathaki, Theodora Michelopoulou, Foteini Palpana, Ilias Polyhroniades, Philippos Theodorides, Ino Varvariti