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STEP 51 | Magic Eye

with Kerry Ann Lee10/06/24, 01/03/2025 Now Steps

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:

  1. Kerry Ann Lee, Big City Rising (大市上升), 2013. Pātaka Art + Museum Collection.
  2. Kerry Ann Lee, The Unavailable Memory of Gold Coin Cafe, 2015.
  3. Kerry Ann Lee, Placeholders (California), 2016.
  4. Kerry Ann Lee, Sabotage-and-Tradition, 2017.
  5. Kerry Ann Lee, Ordinary things will be signs for us, 2019. Photo by Xander Dixon.

is an artist, designer and scholar from New Zealand who explores culture clash, settlement, transformation and exchange in the Asia-Pacific and beyond. Known for her independent publishing and fanzines over the past two decades, she regularly works and exhibits nationally and internationally.

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