Demolition, 2006

Graduation project , Athens School of Fine Arts.

The installation reconstructs the process and experience of the demolition of my family's house in Athens in 2006. Spanning approximately 70 square metres, it brings together architectural fragments salvaged from the building with photographs, documents, and personal memorabilia in an accumulative structure that traces a process of disappearance and transformation.

At its centre, a six-by-two-metre photographic composition documents every stage of the demolition. Expanding outward onto objects and across the floor, the work grows beyond the image into space, unfolding like a three-dimensional archive of a building in the process of becoming absent.

A window frame taken from the house divides the installation in two. On one side, an assemblage of fragments, traces, and documents. On the other, my own body, onto which footage of the demolition is projected alongside documentation of a performative action in which I bind myself with rope. The body appears simultaneously as agent and material, as subject and object.

The relationship between movement and stasis operates as a central principle throughout the work: the movement of time through the sequential still photographs; the passage from image to object and from object to space; the movement of the video on the static body. Rather than presenting demolition as a single event, the installation stages it as a continuous process of transformation in which matter, memory, image, and body remain in constant negotiation.