Growing Care Rotterdam / Athens . 2008-2010
In the long-term project Growing Care Maria Ikonomopoulou has been recording, since 2005, private green areas within public space - mainly in Rotterdam and Athens, the two cities where she lives and works.Photographs of flower pots on the pavements of Rotterdam, lengths of string and elastic protecting - with affecting tenderness and simplicity - little islands of green on the pavements of Athens: these are the raw materials of installations in situ.
The prints are then transformed into paper flowers City Flowers through a time-consuming process of design and cutting by hand, finally taking on new and varied shapes in ephemeral installations.
In another series of work she uses close-ups of the sidewalk gardens, their owners' first names and the names of the plants, with the paper cut into lacy shapes.
Growing Care Athens - 2 . 2010print, cutout, Hahnemühle paper
60 x 45 cm
Growing Care - Parelbes .
2008print, cutout, Hahnemühle paper
80 x 60 cm
Growing Care Athens - 3 . 2010print, cutout, Hahnemühle paper
60 x 45 cm
Growing Care Athens - 4 . 2010print, cutout, Hahnemühle paper
60 x 45 cm
Growing Care - Fuchsia .
2008print, cutout, Hahnemühle paper
80 x 60 cm