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Nikolas Ventourakis opens the door to a car repair shop on the verge of disappearance—a place that has quietly shaped both his own past and the collective memory of those who passed through it. Devoted to Alfa Romeo vehicles, the workshop has long been a point of return: first, as a child beside his father amid the scent of oil and metal; later, as an adult, driving and memorializing the same car in earlier works.
Now, he returns once more to witness its slow unmaking. The camera, steady on its tripod, demands patience—its long exposures echoing the garage’s own lingering fade. In this act of looking back, the space shifts from a site of labor to one of reflection, where time thickens into matter and the boundaries between memory, body and machine dissolve.
Through his selection of photographs and video, the gallery becomes the workshop—and yet, not quite. We glimpse only fragments: tools left on a bench, stacks of archival papers, corners wh…
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Nikolas Ventourakis opens the door to a car repair shop on the verge of disappearance—a place that has quietly shaped both his own past and the collective memory of those who passed through it. Devoted to Alfa Romeo vehicles, the workshop has long been a point of return: first, as a child beside his father amid the scent of oil and metal; later, as an adult, driving and memorializing the same car in earlier works.
Now, he returns once more to witness its slow unmaking. The camera, steady on its tripod, demands patience—its long exposures echoing the garage’s own lingering fade. In this act of looking back, the space shifts from a site of labor to one of reflection, where time thickens into matter and the boundaries between memory, body and machine dissolve.
Through his selection of photographs and video, the gallery becomes the workshop—and yet, not quite. We glimpse only fragments: tools left on a bench, stacks of archival papers, corners wh…
