Event in English

In the series The Wooden Beaver Archive (2022), Michael Borowski combines a mid-19th-century photographic process with AI-generated images, thus creating an archive for the undocumented history of mineral springs as sites of queer desire. In her ongoing project The Seven Circuits of a Pearl (started in 2020), Ioanna Sakellaraki reconstructs an archive that unveils hidden aspects of her own family history. Blending fact and fiction, both artists apply imagination to document silenced histories through dreamlike imagery. Join our artist talk to delve into the place of imagination in archives and reflect on the evidential and reparative functions of the photographic image.

This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Surrender to the Dreamers, on view at the Museum für Fotografie from March 8 to April 27, 2025.

Surrender to the Dreamers is organized by analogueNOW, in cooperation with the Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The exhibition and its associated events are part of EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography 2025.