Callirrhoë is happy to present a solo exhibition by the artist duo Ileana Arnaoutou and Ismene King. Continuing their research into the afterlives of industrial ruins and natural remnants, Arnaoutou and King present a new installation that serves as a love letter to the decaying landscape of a former quarry on the island of Aegina.

Through a process-oriented practice that derives from their embodied experience within a given landscape, the duo engaged into an open and ongoing conversation investigating how an abandoned site can transform from a repository of discarded matter into a living monument. During a series of site visits the duo applied archaeological techniques –documenting, archiving and categorizing–, to study the material remains of the present, equating the collected debris to minerals and fossils in order to reveal the entanglements between the natural and manmade ecosystems. Collected during different seasons the found materials also serve as time stamps of a changing…