What do the signs of this city tell us? What lies beneath and beyond?
Magic Eye looks to interrogate conditions for communication, trade and exchange in Athens — a site of intersecting and overlapping micro (and macro) histories, cross-cultural encounters and storytelling. Of particular interest is the diasporic settlement history of Nea Ionia and contributions of craft industries through type, image, ornament, craft, and tourism. How might new interpretations reinvigorate our understandings of labour, leisure and pleasure?
Images:
Busy bountiful last days in Athens…
- Kerry Ann Lee, Accidental Occidental, 2025
- Bad Tooth Bar, Psyrri, 25 Apr 2025.
- Stormy day in Agistri, 27 Apr 2025.
- Yellow Brick Studio, 29 Apr 2025.
- Typographic walk with Natassa Pappa, 11 April 2025
- ‘Greek Carpets’ by Βασιλική Προνοία and Τμήμα Οικοτεχνίας. Published by Their Majesties’ Fund, Handicraft Department, Athens, 1962.
- Dimitrios Tagias, ‘Portolanos, Namely Book Containing the Seaports, The Distances between One Place and Another and Other Useful Information for this Enterprise’. Venice edition, 1729. Benaki Museum.
- Kerry Ann Lee, Last plant walk of the season with Eleni Officianalis Bourou . Filipappou Hill, 13 April 2025