Cross Section Archive

Thank you all for joining our opening yesterday!

Alpha-Delta: Undisclosed Case Study @ cross section archive is open every day 19:00-22:00 until Sunday 31st May.

Opening tonight:
DISCONTINUITY AS CHRONICLE #3:
Alpha-Delta: Undisclosed Case Study
by Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot.
from 19:00 at cross section archive, Mavromichali 102 & Isavron str.

Join us for the opening of chapter 3 of the exhibition Discontinuity as Chronicle with the title Alpha-Delta: Undisclosed Case Study, revisiting the archive of Athens’ unfinished buildings and positioning them as signifiers of a specific time period of the city which is coming to an end.

An archive has as an integral part the quality of collection, the act of research, the process of categorization, compilation and reorganization. It establishes the relationship with time, through references to political periods, local and international governments and cultural currents. An archive negotiates but also represents or reconstructs the references. For us, the archive confronts concealment, projecting resistance to corruption of memory, striving to find the intermediate relationship between genealogies and the deconstruction of history.

The central object of study in the [UN]FINISHED project is the unfinished skeleton of a modern cultural phenomenon that continues to shape Greek modern life to an exceptional degree: the polykatoikia apartment building. An essential part of the work is the index of the 148 unfinished concrete skeletons found in the 7 districts of the municipality of Athens during Lalou and Aymo-Boot’s research. The installation Alpha-Delta: Undisclosed Case Study translates the index into a tangible form, displaying the building permissions obtained through more than hundred visits to the archive of the Athens Urban Planning Department. The people and events hiding under the dry information about year of permission, function and ownership forms the basis for the [UN]FINISHED investigation. In a moment of time where the current investment bubble is completing many of the city’s neglected corners and the unfinished as a phenomenon is gradually dissolving, a parallel archive of the skeletons presents itself as souvenirs of a ghost city of concealed memories of unrealised dreams.

Discontinuity as Chronicle #3 Alpha-Delta: Undisclosed Case Study by Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot.

cross section archive, 102, Mavromichali Str. & Isavron., Athens.
Thursday 21st May 19:00 - 22:00.
21st - 31st May 2026.
daily 19:00 - 22.00.

working on for “Prosodia”for Athens Epidavrus Festival we are reselling the 10 chairs from the installation of “Cafe Prosodia”

Black chair with straw seat
PM if anyone is interested

Press Conference at Athens Epidavros Festival join us at 14-15 June for Prosodia by Nicoline van Harskamp ⚡️🪄📸 Direction – Text – Set design Nicoline van Harskamp • Cast Angeliki Papoulia, Sofia Kokkali, Lidewij Mahler • Original music composition – String instruments – Vocals Evi Seitanidou • Digital stage tool Alexander Sutherland • Sound & AI engineer Giuliano Anzani • Camera Dimitris Christodoulou • Live sound recording Nikos Patelaros • Production Cross Section Archive (Maria Lalou, Skafte Aymo-Boot), Nicoline van Harskamp • Production assistant Nefeli Varouxi • Casting (Netherlands) Nicoline van Harskamp • Casting (Greece) Maria Lalou • With the support of Creative Industries Fund (Netherlands)

Discontinuity as Chronicle #2: Hidden Stories in this week’s Athinorama.
Due to the beginning of daylight savings we are changing the opening hours of the exhibition to 19:00-22:00, every night till Tuesday 31st March.

Opening tonight!
Konstantinoupoleos Ave. 112, Keramikos, from 19:00.
Thank you Archetype for the post.

Ασυνέχεια ως Χρονικό #2: Hidden Stories | Archetype Ασυνέχεια ως Χρονικό #2: Hidden Stories, Κωνσταντινουπόλεως 112 & Προφήτου Δανιήλ, Κεραμεικός: Βρείτε σχετικές πληροφορίες μέσα από το archetype.gr, και οργανώστε την επίσκεψή σας

Join us for the opening of chapter 2 of the exhibition ‘Discontinuity as Chronicle’ with the title ‘Hidden Stories’, exploring the role of Athens’ unfinished buildings as keepers of memories of the people and circumstances that created them.

~2026: Once more, we walk the streets of Athens, finding ourselves in a new era of colonial capitalism and touristification. Votanikos and Keramikos: After visiting two desired structures, we walk towards the third one on Konstantinoupoleos Avenue. The road leads us a bit further to the left in order to cross the railway tracks from Votanikos to Keramikos. An unregistered unfinished, hello there? Konstantinoupoleos 112, two souls in family, maintaining an unfinished acknowledging its qualities, a roof for Hidden Stories.~

Lalou and Aymo-Boot’s work [UN]FINISHED is a detailed survey on unfinished concrete skeletons in the city of Athens. It places a light on social, economic and spatial aspects of the city with the unfinished buildings in a central role as containers of private, otherwise untold stories to be unfolded. Those stories are proof of the unseen forces that have shaped the city, laws and regulations as well as personal ambitions and family feuds. It gives attention to those daily Greek encounters which often pass un-noticed but nevertheless feature a significant history hosted in the Greek urban landscape. The work traces the hidden history of those monumental volumes that remain as voids of the city and as archaeological sherds within the constantly changing architectural collage of contemporary Athens.

Stories of three selected structures, each one holding a specific profile and dramaturgical ground, uncover a complex configuration of bureaucracy (state), heritage (family) and value (capital) that is the point of departure for the [UN]FINISHED narrative of an underexposed historical and architectural phenomenon of modern times.

Discontinuity as Chronicle #2: Hidden Stories
exhibition by Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot

unfinished building
112, Konstantinoupoleos Ave. , Keramikos
26th - 31st March 2026
daily 18.00 - 21.00
opening Friday 26th March 19:00

Discontinuity as Chronicle #2: Hidden Stories
by Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot

Opening on Thursday 26th March 19:00,
in the unfinished building at Konstantinoupoleos Ave. 112.

Thank you Athinorama for the article!

Η ανεκπλήρωτη πλευρά της Αθήνας αποκαλύπτεται στον Κεραμεικό Η έκθεση των Μαρία Λάλου & Skafte Aymo-Boot μας συστήνει για δεύτερη φορά τους ημιτελείς τσιμεντένιους ιστούς της Αθήνας, με στραμμένο βλέμμα στην ιστορία της πόλης.

a glimpse … Excavating Modernity

Ευχαριστούμε inExarchia.gr 🙏🏽⚡️❤️

Η έκθεση "Ασυνέχεια ως Χρονικό #1" των Lalou & Aymo-Boot στο Circuits and Currents Η έκθεση Discontinuity as Chronicle, διερευνά τη µεθοδολογία εργασίας των Lalou & Aymo-Boot υπό τον τίτλο Excavating Modernity. Χρησιµοποιώντας τη σύγχρονη πόλη ως τόπο ανασκαφής, το έργο τους α....