200 Years of Suffocation
(2021)

online exhibition
Curated by: FYTA

“Two Hundred Years of Suffocation” was an online exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of the greek revolution. The exhibition, which featured artworks from more than 40 participants, attracted significant interest, with more than 6,000 visitors during its five-day run. Two (fascist) newspapers featured artworks from the exhibition on their front page, and hundreds of social media haters posted insults and threats on our social media.

…What is our homeland after all? is it not the construction of a national fantasy based on the extermination of everything that does not fit in the image of the strong and brave fighter? Can it be the majestic high mountains of the greek landscape? And why does this issue return so often in the nationalist discourse of the modern greek state? If greekness is a monster that does not make much sense, we must demonstrate the contradictions and silenced crimes that make it up - because that is the only way to survive.

This exhibition is made by subjects and talks about subjects who suffocate within the framework of greek orthodox patriotism and use creative means to express their dissatisfaction with a mythology that does not include them, does not express them, does not concern them.
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