Metoikesis

Through the diligent, everyday practice of photographing, and through the subsequent editing, selecting and printing of images, the artist marked her own journey in step with the process of moving ancient stone from the old to the new Acropolis Museum, presenting to us as a final visual commentary not abandoned spaces or sculptural details, but simply the wrapped stone statues, cocooned in wheat-coloured cloth, as if these are pupae in hibernation waiting to emerge, fully fledged and quite new, into another stage of their being.

Lizzie Calligas lives and works in Spetses, Greece.

Texts: Claire MacDonald, Christina Petrinou, John Stathatos, Syrago Tsiara, Aliki Tsirgialou, Christina Vlassopoulou
Design: Studio Christos Lialios
Jacket Design: Lizzie Calligas

Size: 210×270 mm
Pages: 128
Illustrations: 80 photographs
Format: Hardcover
Languages: English, Greek
Edition: 600 copies

Co-published with SMCA and Benaki Museum

2010

ISBN: 978-960-93-1934-8