The project 'Athens is a Collage' is a book about images, images about Athens. But it is also a book about stories, fragmented and incomplete, of architects and artists that adopt the philosophy of the Collage Art to express their thoughts and feelings about the city.
Looking at Athens using collage is an attempt of decomposition and re-composition of the physical body of the city through the psyches of those that experience it. Because collage is a subjective practice, it elaborates what already exists filtering it with each personal background. But such subjective practice should also be considered a historical statement that witnesses Athens through the economic crisis.
The collection of these works builds a novel urban iconography that is made up of unconventional, hybrid, heteroclite, and fantastic images that are indisputably true because they are grounded on the real. This work fosters a new visual narrative in antithesis with common mainstream narrations.