PCAI is pleased to announce the Interdisciplinary Art Project – Screening titled Ancestors by PCAI collection artist Eva Stefani at Athens Epidaurus Festival.
A former wrestler in Serres eating five eggs before work; Dionysis Savvopoulos ready to go on stage for his final concert in Athens; a sex-worker watching a muted Christmas special on a broken television; E. Ch. Gonatas trimming a plant; an elder man on the phone with God; a premature newborn inside the incubator; a Georgian nurse whispering ‘Sleep’ to a patient; Vassilis Papavasileiou reflecting on Chekhov; an elderly woman in Komotini addressing the TV presenter she watches on screen; a young Zafos Xagoraris painting banners in the early 1980s.
Eva Stefani’s documentary film constitutes an arc of fragments from unfinished stories and seemingly unconnected moments captured on film during a thirty-year period. A palimpsest of encounters across ethnicities, ages, and social strata, where the lives of unknown, solitary figures intersect with the voices of artists and creators. This stream-of-consciousness weaving of image and sound – what she calls ‘retalia’ (clothing scraps) – forms a living mosaic of the present and of memory, of memory returning to inhabit the present.
23 June at Peiraios 260
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Image Credit: Ancestors © Eva Stefani
Activity aligned with Goals 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11,15, 16, 17
