Growing Interests . 2009
2009 The project was part of the show Expanded Ecologies - Perspectives in a Time of Emergency (June - October 2009) curated by Daphne Vitali at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens.It consists of two elements. A series of decorative pavement drawings made with calcimine which mark the places in the city where citizens take care for plants in front of their houses and shops - visible in the center of Athens - and a collection of plants donated by those citizens to the museum during the show. Growing Interests is based on the ideas of exchange and mutual interest which can form our common interests. The pavement drawings are inspired by the traditional ones, Greek women used to draw in front of their houses every year before Easter . A tradition based more on the antibacterial qualities of the calcimine but still in practice as a way of decorating the public part of people's property.
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Growing Interests, a film about the making process
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
pavement drawings, Athens
