The Edit Gallery presents Elena Adamou’s solo exhibition, ΔS ≥ 0, opening on Friday, 27 November 2026

Bringing together embroidery and objects, the exhibition looks at what a clock leaves out. Adamou explores how we experience the passage of time through the rhythms of the body, the repetition of everyday gestures, and the gradual changes in the things around us.

The title comes from the second law of thermodynamics and points to the direction of familiar changes, such as heat passing from a warmer object to a cooler one. For Adamou, this is a starting point for thinking about how the past remains present in materials. A material can retain traces of what has happened to it even as it continues to change.

In her embroidered Time-Counters, Adamou sets her own terms for measuring time. Each stitch marks a gesture. As the stitches accumulate, they record the rhythm of her hand. In repeating a gesture practised by generations of women, Adamou makes that shared history part of the work. What first appears as a pattern can also be read as a record of the time she spent making it.

In ΔS ≥ 0, a work can hold both the time of its making and the longer history of the gestures that gave it form.

*Read the accompanying text by Dr Iris Pissaride here