Almost Vanished Friends
Locating each individual from the fused glass negative.
Adding acrylic paint
Installation Almost Vanished Friends 2025
210x114 cm
Individual Sizes 11.5x20.5x2 cm
Distance between artworks: Horizontal 10 cm, Vertical 10 cm
The artwork is printed on high-quality linen canvas and meticulously stretched over a 2 cm deep wooden stretcher frame.
Acrylic Paint is added.
Almost Vanished Friends - 2025 - Wall Installation.
From two century-old fused glass negatives, forty-one forgotten faces re-emerge — a group of friends once lost to time, now reunited
through art. Each fragment has been digitally modified and partially hand-painted, transforming decay into rebirth. Together, they form a silent gathering across generations — a tender reminder that even what fades can find new life through memory, colour, and light.
Discovered in 2019, the two glass plates had been stuck together for over forty years in a damp basement, their images partially destroyed by
time. The fusion of one photograph of friends and another of two young boys accidentally created new, intertwined portraits — a miraculous
union of lives never meant to meet. From this chance encounter, Almost Vanished Friends was born — a celebration of time’s unpredictability
and art’s power to restore meaning to what was nearly lost.
Within the Almost Vanished Friends collection, only one female figure has been distinctly identified from the group, referred to as The Guest
Star. One additional work presents a fused figure, combining the facial characteristics of a young person from one glass negative with those
of a gentleman from another, resulting in a composite presence shaped by the convergence of two separate images.
The collector could recompose the installation in infinite variations.
Partially exhibited in Athens in 2022 at my solo exhibition titled “Metamorphosis 2,” which took place at the House of Cyprus, Cyprus Embassy.
Fully exhibited in its final form in Nicosia 2025. Artos Gallery House. Exhibition Title: “Whatever Remains, Turn It Into Art.”
This artwork is accompanied by two short video works, which may be presented either as an integrated component of the piece or as
standalone works.
Videos included:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksr7hZXkA3g
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6l4jIpJwTeQ
Please visit the link below to view each individual work from the Almost Vanished Friends collection on my website:
https://www.sergisadamos.com/almost-vanished-friends
For additional context, a short, informal video from the recent exhibition is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aPodtz0En9U
This is the link to my webpage, Almost Vanished Friends. In it, you will find each piece individually listed by name.
Almost Vanished Friends
Almost Vanished Friends was partly first Exhibited in Athens Greece in 2022 “Metamorphosis 2”, Athens, 12/9/2022
Enhanced with acrylic paint in close-up detail.
Enhanced with acrylic paint in close-up detail.
Almost Vanished Friends. Original Glass Plate- 2018 - B&W - 9000x6088 pix.
National Gallery of Cyprus
Almost Vanished Friends. Original Glass Plate - Coloured - 9000x6088 pix - National Gallery of Cyprus
All 40 PHYSICAL printed characters in their new IDENTITIES.
Characters Sizes For NFT 3000x5256pix
Animations Created for the collections