In Waiting: Book

In Waiting 

Published by Hatje Cantz
Release Date,October 2017
Text(s) by James Estrin, Panos Kokkinias, Eirini Voulourmis
100 pg, 42 ills.
hardcover
29.00 x 24.00 cm
ISBN 978-3-7757-4340-2 

‘In Waiting,’ is an examination of Athens and its role as a physical stage for the economic crisis. Primarily, I am exploring the interiors of government buildings, institutions, and schools to question how these spaces reflect modern Greek culture and character. The locations I chose are familiar microcosms for Athenians that have now become the public stage for a forced re-negotiation of Greek identity. I am attempting to personally rationalize how the deceptively tedious components of urban life factor into the economic crisis. I am specifically attracted to the particular aesthetic and surreal atmosphere I encounter in these spaces. These interiors also reveal an almost antiquated and bare aesthetic quality; they evoke in their décor a feeling of dependency on and idolization of the past. Spaces, which once seemed banal or unimportant, now reveal nuances of Greek reality and have social and political implications. Like the Greek people, these places exist in anticipation of their future.