What might take shape within something that refuses to end?

Upper Ankyle presents Persistent Interval, a group exhibition curated by Vangelis Tzolakis, featuring Dien Berziga, Lu Gan, Tania Kapoglou, Konstanza Kapsali, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Aristomenis Theodoropoulos, and Athina Triantafyllou.

Taking as its point of departure the sense that we are living through a period of continuous transition, Persistent Interval approaches the present as an extended in-between: a time in which the old has lost its coherence while the new remains unformed. Transition is no longer simply a passage from one state to another, but becomes a condition in itself. Time unfolds as an open and unstable field, where memories, images, and materials remain in constant flux.

Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s spectral understanding of time and Antonio Gramsci’s concept of the interregnum, the exhibition considers a present haunted by what has passed and by what is yet to come. Memory becomes a force of return and transformation. Traces and echoes resurface without settling into fixed meanings, moving between familiarity and estrangement, recognition and obscurity. A gothic sensibility runs through this suspended space, not as a visual language, but as a way of inhabiting what remains unresolved. The old seeps into the new, leaving its marks upon forms that have not yet fully emerged.

Persistent Interval inhabits this open interval, approaching the unknown as a method.