What simply happens
Is an exploration of the hills of Athens.
An integral part of the city’s landscape yet not exactly a part of its urban construct.
The Lofos - as they are called in Greek - are at once in the city and apart from it.
Athenians
are free to roam around and use them as they please.
There is a tacite understanding that the hills do
not belong to anyone; they are not watched over nor enclosed. They are therefore
very naturally used in various ways ranging from the banal to the bizarre. Rock-climbing, drug
use, picnics, both temporary and permanent housing, sex, car drifting are just some of the uses
that can be found in these hills.
These spaces strike as being
nothing like those one could encounter elswhere. They resist designation or being put into any existing
category. They escape rules and regulations in a way that seems unthinkable in a european capital. Yet they attract a great diversity of the city’s inhabitants and are an essential, organic part
of the urban whole.
The project is now edited as a book that was published in october of 2021
