INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE GRÈCE ΓΑΛΛΙΚΟ ΙΝΣΤΙΤΟΥΤΟ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ PRESENTS ARCHIPELAGO OF STONE BY ELSA MAZEAU

Rarely open to the public, the shaded gardens of the French School of Athens part almost ceremonially, offering themselves to Elsa Mazeau’s rigorous study of marble. Working from quarries, archaeological sites, and museum collections, Mazeau transfers photographs onto marble surfaces and tools, allowing the stone to carry not only representation but the physical traces of its own extraction. Through drilling, pressure, and fragmentation, each piece follows the logic of the quarry, where cutting, tension, and repetition shape both landscape and form. Marble emerges not as a static material but as a sedimentation of histories, geological, archaeological, and cultural, each layer holding the stories, displacements, and gestures embedded within it.