During this residency I had to respond to the old town of Atina by working with the local community. I created two pieces of work, a museum cabinet ‘Excavation 3013 Atina’ and ‘The Palace Curve’. The cabinet contained objects created collaboratively withJames Bell, excavated from three locations in Atina, a disused police station, San Marco Cemetery and Santo Stefano Park.Acting as future archaeologists and excavators we collected both man- made and natural objects, the flora and fauna of a thousand years ahead, discovering remnants of human activity, animals and plantation of Atina in 2013. ‘The Palace Curve’ an installation of finely threaded palace gates with black yarn, I explore how the role of contemporary art is negotiated in a ‘non art’ site, by creating a spatial curve based on the structure of the gates, and architecture of the space. The viewer could walkunder the curve, which was above head height and touch the yarns.
Fine Artist