(RE)TURNING / A PRACTICE OF ATTENTION

Closing Soon × Tzamia Krystalla

Exhibition period: 23.04.2026–29.04.2026, 18:00–21:00

Artist: Line Kallmayer
Curator: Orestis Mavroudis
Address: 10 Agiou Orous St, 104 35 Athens (Keramikos)
Photos: Nikos Katsaros

(Re)turning attends to the question of how something begins — how something comes into form. Is this even a viable question? Returning to the moment she first “picked up a camera,” Line Kallmayer reflects on the role of the lens and on old material tucked away beneath her childhood bed at her mother’s house.
(Re)turning marks a first step into a longer investigation into the concept and mechanics of attention, approaching this preliminary question through a series of probes. The work forms part of an ongoing research process concerned with attention, perception, and the apparatus through which images are produced.
Kallmayer uses writing as a tool to reflect on a lens-based practice that lies at the core of her work: engaging with and reworking narrative structures developed over longer periods of research, while attempting to push and explore the borders of language and of our imagination. With this gesture, she approaches an ever-changing context in which images — and our relationship to them — reside, and where stories are written and told.
(Re)turning / A Practice of Attention takes the form of a sculptural film installation consisting of a video projection on plexiglas, a collection of objects, a monitor-based archival work, and a suspended print on glass.

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Line Kallmayer is a visual artist, writer, translator, and researcher whose essayistic practice combines text with lens-based media and performance. She holds fine arts degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London, and Malmö Art Academy, and has also studied at the Polish National Film School. Her work often employs autobiographical structures as points of departure for investigations into ethical, epistemic, and aesthetic questions. Both materially grounded and dialogical, her practice unfolds across film, performance, writing, and research contexts. She has published widely, including the art books Ten Days with an Exorcist (2013, Green Is Gold) and Bird (2017, Catalyst Press), as well as essays and prose in The White Review and AGNI. She is currently working on a novel.

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