“Elena Arivizatou, the forgotten urban planner of the Plutonian city.”, 2021, site specific installation, (Photos, texts.)

"The exhibition/ action “Urban Mythology” attempts to exorcize the current dystopia and the conditions of confinement and social isolation with performances and ephemeral installations in the urban fabric.
It provides direct communication with public and initiates unsuspecting passers-by and local communities into art.
It comprises an artistic journey, a live/ participatory/ alternative project with references to past, present, future. It covers the area form Thission to the archaeological site of Kerameikos, the Sacred Way of the Eleusinian procession and the nearby lanes of Kerameikos and Votanikos.It includes also the site old Demosion Sema, the most important cemetery of ancient Athens which hosts the burial monuments of distinguished citizens a well as polyandria- the mass graves of those fallen while fighting for their homeland.
This charged place, rich in myths and archeological traces, is a vibrant multinational mosaic full of contrasts. Here, the ephemeral works function like original anti-monuments, creating new landmarks in today’s city. Their fragile nature and their fleeting presence reflect the fluidity and uncertainty of the times and remind one of the finite human existence."

"The road to Demosion Sema started from Dipylon, the main entrance to Athens at Kerameikos, and ended at Plato’s Academy. Along the same axis there is the installation of the mokotomoro group - a tribute to Elena Arivizatou, the forgotten architect and activist against male dominance in urban planning in post-1974 Greece - a personality with a groundbreaking vision for a sustainable city, which had been successfully adopted in Western cities but was reviled in her own country. The work “Elena Arivizatou, the forgotten urban planner of the Plutonian city”, consists of black and white photographs and articles by herself which are posted on the railings of the building at no.50 Agiou Orous St., which housed her school of architecture and urban planning (1976 - 1981). The script unfolds as a protest by her former students, associates and friends who outline her revolutionary profile and her scientific contribution and forcefully demand “Vindication for Elena Arivizatou”. Thus it becomes symbolic of all women who fought against patriarchy and are worth retrieving back from silence and oblivion."

Excerpts from the curatorial text by art historian and curator Bia Papadopoulou from the catalogue of the exhibition, Urban Mythologies, curated by Artemis Potamianou and Bia Papadopoulou at Kerameikos Archaeological Site in Athens.