Ci-contre à droite : Andreas Angelidakis (représenté par la galerie The Breeder), dans son appartement-atelier du quartier d’Omonia. Ci-dessous : dessins muraux, œuvres picturales et graffitis couvrent les murs d’Athènes. Page de gauche, de haut en bas : l’artiste Alexandros Vasmoulakis dans son atelier en périphérie du centre d’Athènes. Iliana Fokianaki, directrice et fondatrice de State of Concept Athens, plate-forme artistique non commerciale très active, ouverte en 2012. Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos, directrice artistique de la foire internationale Art Athina et fondatrice de Mum Social Club, ateliers multiculturels participatifs pour les femmes. The artist’s eye Is a pottery workshop or a lesson in As in many places, artists in Athens “lazy cooking” art? With Mum Social tend to move out of the city center as Club, Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos offers rents rise. Alexandros Vasmoulakis, also women a global artistic experience. represented by The Breeder, quips, “It’s “Creating things with your hands is a not so much about where you sell as source of pleasure and inspiration,” says where you live.” He sees his deconstruc- the 25-year-old director of the Art Athina tions of images found on the Internet contemporary art fair. as reflections of “the self-destructive Like art itself, Athens defies categori- climate afflicting Greece.” zation. Artist Andreas Angelidakis calls it Iliana Fokianaki opened the city’s first “an unsettled space in which everyone non-commercial gallery in 2012. State of can create their own story.” In his show Concept forges links between art and “A Submissive Acknowledgement of daily life, as with “C’est l’Est Not Ouest,” Powerlessness” at The Breeder, he uses a 2016 exhibition by the French artist the city’s chaotic architectural transfor- Laure Prouvost that examined the impact mations as a metaphor for social forces. of art on political, social and legal issues. AIR FRANCE MADAME / 193