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Refugee — Woman of Smyrna

PPS-3Agiou Georgiou Square, Municipality of Neo Psychiko
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Neo Psychiko, Athens, Greece

Refugee — Woman of Smyrna

Agiou Georgiou Square, Municipality of Neo Psychiko
Historical referenceThe catastrophe of Smyrna, September 1922 · The sculptor's maternal grandmother

Refugee-Woman of Smyrna stands in Neo Psychiko, Athens. The work connects a public place with the artist’s family history and the experience of displacement.

ReferencePPS-3
CollectionAgiou Georgiou Square, Municipality of Neo Psychiko
SectorGovernment
Year2022
StatusInstalled
Height132 cm excl. base
Max. width100 cm
MaterialBronze metal coating with custom patina over a PETG body
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Agiou Georgiou Square, Municipality of Neo Psychiko

Installation view: Agiou Georgiou Square, Neo Psychiko, with the artist
Installation view: Agiou Georgiou Square, Neo Psychiko, with the artist
Detail: bronze metal coating and custom patina
Detail: bronze metal coating and custom patina
Purpose
To mark the centennial of the destruction of Smyrna in September 1922, in an Athenian neighbourhood shaped by refugee history.
Figure, material and scale
The Refugee head from the Hellenic Heads cycle, enlarged and adapted into a monumental public sculpture: 132 cm high without its base and 100 cm wide, in a bronze metal coating with custom patina over a PETG body. It is modeled on the sculptor’s maternal grandmother, Maria, who fled burning Smyrna in 1922; Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pietà served as a sculptural precedent.
Setting and audience
Agiou Georgiou Square in Neo Psychiko, an open public square used daily by residents and passers-by. Viewers have told the artist that they see their own grandmothers in her face.
Studio’s role
Modeled in clay, 3D-scanned and refined digitally, printed at scale and hand-finished in metals and patinas in the Petrides studio.
Relationship
Installed in Agiou Georgiou Square, Municipality of Neo Psychiko; unveiled September 2022.

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