Archives of Trauma
Submissions deadline: 15 February 2026
We invite artists and photographers to submit projects for Archives of Trauma, an exhibition exploring the many forms, layers, and interpretations of trauma—personal, historical, social, environmental, or otherwise.
Submissions may engage with trauma directly or indirectly; through documentation or metaphor; through absence, memory, distortion, healing, reconstruction, or transformation. Projects might consider:
Personal or collective memory
Silence, erasure, or the impossibility of documentation
Bodily, psychological, or intergenerational experiences
Landscapes altered by conflict, disaster, or loss
Social, political, or cultural wounds
Invented or speculative archives
Acts of resistance, repair, or resilience
We encourage a wide range of approaches—conceptual, documentary, experimental, staged, mixed-media, or otherwise.
The submitted projects will be reviewed and selected by the curators. The selected 6 projects will be exhibited at the House of Lucie Athens Gallery. All seven projects will be exhibited through tailored presentation strategies, allowing for variation in print dimensions and display configurations. The exhibition will be curated by Penelope Petsini and Eleni Mouzakiti.