We are happy to have our current resident James Moore, present their work at LALA.

This exhibition is a documentation of Queer and Trans life in Athens, not as a spectacle, but as an everyday, deeply rooted presence. Shot in collaboration with several individuals, the work centers on the textures, rituals, and quiet resistance that make up life in a city that is both beautiful, brutal, sacred and mundane.

Set within the walls of LALA Spiti, a queer collective space, the exhibition transforms into a familiar Athenian apartment: an environment many of us know, which echoes the intimate, often contradictory blend of tradition, spirituality, and protection that shapes our domestic lives. These elements are not mere decoration, but cultural artifacts that speak to survival, care, and inheritance in all its forms.
The beautiful individuals who appear in these images are workers, friends, artists, lovers, neighbors. They are not only surviving but also shaping Athens through their presence, their work, their joy, and their refusal to disappear. Their stories are tied to the specificities of class, migration, queerness, and gender in a city like Athens, and in a neighborhood like Viktoria, where complexity lives on every corner.

This work is not only about representation, but about place. It’s about claiming space, making home, and honoring the textures of daily life. It is a love letter to queer and trans resilience, to working-class Athenian culture, and to the streets that have raised them.