Andrew Hazewinkel

Comprising six black and white photographs, The Antikythera Group represents a group of dramatically excoriated figures that lay on the Aegean seabed for approximately 2000 years before being brought to the surface and into the collection of the National Archaeological Museum at Athens.

This body work takes our imaginations below the surface of the sea. It also extends and explores my practice of enaging damaged figurative scuplture as a means of drawing out tensions that reside between time worn, hard, broken and injured bodies of remote pasts and our own soft ephemral bodies. 

Comprising seven intimately scaled seascapes, Asgelatas (Mt Kalamos) takes us in another direction, into the sky, to the summit of a marble monolith that juts 450 metres from the surface of Aegean sea. This group of images expresses another of my abiding interests, atmospheric conditions and the subtlety and speed with which they change.

With these seven colour photographs, captured on medium format film, we witness changing atmospheric arriving with dawn. The Greek word Ασγελάτας - Asgelatas - is an epithet meaning The Radiant which is sometimes ascribed to the god Apollo but only with specific relation to Mt Kalamos on the island of Anaphe where it is believed a healing cult devoted to the deity once existed.

Together these two bodies of work conjure a kind of enviromental intimacy, they take us into the sea and into the sky, they drive us into our bodies and into our inner worlds. They are connected with injury and with healing, which are two states or rebecoming.