Strangers Forever
About the Collection
Strangers Forever is an ongoing collection developed from fused early twentieth-century glass negatives. In many cases, two separate plates had adhered to one another after decades of humidity, pressure, and poor storage conditions, forming a single fragile object in which unrelated figures and photographic surfaces became accidentally joined.
Through careful handling, separation, scanning, and digital intervention, Adamos isolates details where figures from different negatives appear to occupy the same image. These chance encounters create unstable compositions in which strangers from separate moments in time are brought together through damage, fusion, and photographic decay.
First presented in Athens in 2022 as part of the Metamorphosis 2 exhibition, the collection explores recognition, disappearance, and the accidental relationships produced by the archive itself. Colour is introduced not to restore the past, but to intensify the tension between damaged surfaces, altered faces, and figures who were never meant to meet.
The collection exists across digital works, limited-edition giclée prints, monotypes, and selected physical works. Earlier NFT editions formed part of the project’s digital phase, but the central focus remains the transformation of fused archival material into contemporary art.
Exhibition view, Metamorphosis 2, Athens, 12 September 2022.
“Young Girl and her Guardian”. original black-and-white image.
“Carefreeness” original black-and-white image.
