Ecotone I: Kallion 1979, Ecotone II: Kallion 2021

“Ecotone I: Kallion 1979”, 2021
“Ecotone II: Kallion 2021”, 2021

Installation with aquarium, weed, soil, glass jars, galoshes, digital prints and found objects 
Dimensions variable


Post Documenta Group Exhibition _ “Are we not continuously plunging?”
lyg west, LindeNOW festival, oct 1-3, 2021, Leipzig, Germany
Circuits and currents, oct. 14-30, 2021, Athens, Greece
Curated by Eleni Michailidi, Olga Vostretsova


At the end of the ‘70s, an artificial lake was created to meet the ever-increasing water supply needs of the city of Athens, by constructing a dam at Mornos river in mainland Greece. The remains of Kallion village and ancient Kallipolis have been lying at the bottom of the lake ever since.

Ecotone~ noun< by greek οἶκος {home} and τόνος<τείνω {tone, tonality} //
A transitional area of vegetation between two different plant communities, such as forest and grassland. It has some of the characteristics of each bordering biological community and often contains species not found in the overlapping communities. An ecotone may exist along a broad belt or in a small pocket, such as a forest clearing, where two local communities blend together.

Kallion Fokidas~ place name< Κάλλιον Φωκίδας< by greek Κάλλος {Beauty}, also comparative of adjectif καλό {good}
A village in the area of Vardousia and Giona mountains, in the mainland of Greece, built in the area of ancient Greek city Kallipolis. In the wider area there are many waters among them the river Mornos. The inhabitants scattered in Athens and the surrounding villages. There were few who built on the shore.

Nikolaos Kapsiotis name < Νικόλαος Καψιώτης // Shepherd, born in the 1910s, resident of Kallion Fokidas. His house is opposite the church of Evangelistria. Both lay in the bottom of Mornos Lake. After the construction of the lake, he chose not to abandon the only place he ever knew, and lived in a shack on the banks until the end of his life.

He had three children - one of his daughters, Katina, was my great-grandmother.