Sergis Adamos

Sergis Adamos is an archive-based contemporary artist whose work is rooted in a single privately held archive of deteriorated and fused photographic glass negatives. Working with fragile plates altered by time, humidity, and chemical decay, he transforms this material through digital manipulation into new works presented as digital pieces, giclée prints, and canvas works further developed with acrylic paint. Rather than restoring the original images, he embraces their erosion, allowing damage, fracture, and visual loss to shape new compositions. The result is a contemporary body of work that carries historical material into the present across both digital and physical forms.

My practice investigates fused and deteriorated early twentieth-century glass negatives, examining how photographic damage can become a generative force in the creation of new contemporary artworks. Rather than treating these negatives as documents to be restored, I approach them as unstable photographic objects whose altered condition—fusion, cracking, corrosion, chemical change, and image loss—creates new visual possibilities.
Through scanning, enlargement, digital isolation, recomposition, and material transformation, these remains are developed into works that move beyond the photograph’s original documentary function. In this process, decay is not the end of the image, but the condition for its transformation into something new.

To understand the evolution of my work, visit the Metamorphosis Timeline in the menu.

Shop