Λίζη Καλλιγά. Μετοίκησις / Lizzie Calligas. Metoikesis

This is the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name, which was held at the Center for Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki and at the Benaki Museum (15/12/2010 - 23/01/2011). Photographs by Lizzie Calligas in the old Acropolis Museum solidify and record a transitional condition: the vacuum of what has become a non-functional space, which is transformed from a permanent exhibition environment into a place for recording, packaging and temporarily hosting the valuable works of ancient sculpture that will be undergoing special procedures at the hands of experts, in order to be transferred safe and sound to the New Acropolis Museum. The corpus of the sculptures is transformed, as each is clothed in protective white coverings, while the game of shading enriches the semantic content of the dressed forms.

Texts: Syrago Tsiara, Christina Petrinou, Aliki Tsirgialou, Claire Macdonald, John Stathatos

Translation: Maria Skamaga, John Stathatos