“ΔΩΡΙΖΕΤΑΙ” (DORIZETE) is a project I came up with during my two-month stay in Snehta Residency in Athens, Greece. I wanted to make a work focussing on the juxtaposition of the growing amount of empty spaces, shops, houses buildings, and the growing amount of homeless and jobless people in Greece. After being in Athens a few weeks I noticed that the amount of Signs saying “for rent” and “for sale” had exploded around the city. I decided i wanted to make one that said “for free”(its literal translation is to be given)

Signs saying “ENIKIAZETAI”, “for rent” and “ΠΩΛEITAI”, “for sale” have always been around, but these last years they seem to be covering almost every other shop window you pass….sometimes 5 or 6 in a row…These signs have a specific form in Greece: They always have red typefaces printed on yellow paper, you can buy them in corner shops and kiosks for a couple of euros. I experimented with different sizes and papers in order to find the one that would speak exactly the same “language” as the ones in the street, after some difficulties of finding the right font I ordered 6500 “ΔΩΡΙΖΕΤΑΙ” signs and started pasting them up in the streets systematically for more than three months….

I will continue this project when I come back to Athens in the Summer of 2015

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