THE GOLDEN HOMES launched in August 2019 in Athens Greece is a series of photo-based and improv performance works that focus on the idea of home, transition, memory and loss. The group of homes included in this body of work, belongs to a particular category of properties no longer favored by the locals, found in parts of the city that have been transformed by the influx of recent migration, current social trends and patterns. In the light of the recent Greek economic crisis these homes have become investment opportunities for foreign landlords who quickly repurpose them into temporary style housing for transient visitors.
The rapid change of ownership and functional status erases a big part of the domestic and cultural identity of these homes but also creates a new ambiguous reality and an anticipated new life. Repositioning the emotions and motions of human presence in this case the female dweller and hostess, is a symbolic reenactment of the archetypal home and the domestic story. It is also an interim fictional state where one imagines rather than experiences what home is and what it means. It manifests states of human condition and the transitions from past, present to future and from habitable to non-habitable structures and notions of living.
