During 23 years 1.203 archaeological bodies were classified into 2.534 pages of a four-volume scientific publication. 100 of these photographed bodies of stone in the four Catalogues of Sculptures in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (ΚΓΑΜΘ) were re−photographed in the period 2021−2022 composing a new corpus, a new body, entitled [ΚΟΡΠΟΥΣ, ΧΧΙ−ΧΧΙΙ] by Fotis Ifantidis, published by the Laboratory of Museology −Museolab− of the Department of Cultural Technology & Communication of the University of the Aegean.

In this photographic process both the printed and digital forms of the academic catalogues as well as the visualization of the sculptures themselves −the outcome of a specific academic photographic gaze− are understood as parallel archeological objects.

Their photographic re−negotiation comments on the boundaries of printed and digital materiality, as well as the practice of archaeological accumulation and classification, aiming to the creation of new textures arising from the two−dimensional, pseudo−three−dimensional or heavily digitally altered re−photographed bodies.

In the exhibition [ΚΟΡΠΟΥΣ, ΧΧΙΙΙ] these re−photographed bodies return to the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki in the form of a new materiality.

The exhibition is implemented as part of the act Creative Core of Research and Development of Three-Dimensional Multimedia Exhibition Narrative of the project Interregional Digital Transformation of the Aegean Archipelago in Culture and Tourism (e-Aegean CulTour)

Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Temporary Exhibition Hall C’

Free entrance